Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:02:14PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> The next-20080611 kernel build fails on ia64 machine
>>
>> AR arch/ia64/lib/lib.a
>> LD vmlinux.o
>> MODPOST vmlinux.o
>> GEN .version
>> CHK include/linux/compile.h
>> UPD include/linux/compile.h
>> CC init/version.o
>> LD init/built-in.o
>> LD .tmp_vmlinux
>> LD vmlinux
>> ld: .tmp_kallsyms.o: linking constant-gp files with non-constant-gp files
>> ld: failed to merge target specific data of file .tmp_kallsyms.o
>> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>
> A kbuild bug..
> We do a local build of .tmp_kallsyms.o and we do not pass -mconstant-gp
>
> Can you please try if the following patch fixes it.
>
> Sam
Hi Sam,
Thanks, the patch fixes the build failure.
Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> index b9ecff5..b335700 100644
> --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ if [ "${CONFIG_KALLSYMS}" = "y" ]; then
>
> # Do an extra pass to link in kallsyms data
> ${NM} -n .tmp_vmlinux | scripts/kallsyms > .tmp_kallsyms.S
> - ${CC} ${KBUILD_AFLAGS} ${KBUILD_CPPFLAGS} -c -o .tmp_kallsyms.o \
> + ${CC} ${KBUILD_AFLAGS} ${AFLAGS_KERNEL} ${KBUILD_CPPFLAGS} -c -o .tmp_kallsyms.o \
> .tmp_kallsyms.S
> # link in kalll symbols
> tell LD vmlinux
> --
--
Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM, ISTL.
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