Re: [PATCH 5/5] kbuild: thin archives make default for all archs

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Hi Nicholas,

2017-06-09 14:24 GMT+09:00 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Make thin archives build the default, but keep the config option
> to allow exemptions if any breakage can't be quickly solved.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/changes.rst | 9 ++++-----
>  arch/Kconfig                      | 2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig              | 8 --------
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> index e25d63f8c0da..56fd0687bd4a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils.
>  ====================== ===============  ========================================
>  GNU C                  3.2              gcc --version
>  GNU make               3.81             make --version
> -binutils               2.12             ld -v
> +binutils               2.20             ld -v
>  util-linux             2.10o            fdformat --version
>  module-init-tools      0.9.10           depmod -V
>  e2fsprogs              1.41.4           e2fsck -V
> @@ -75,10 +75,9 @@ You will need GNU make 3.81 or later to build the kernel.
>  Binutils
>  --------
>
> -Linux on IA-32 has recently switched from using ``as86`` to using ``gas`` for
> -assembling the 16-bit boot code, removing the need for ``as86`` to compile
> -your kernel.  This change does, however, mean that you need a recent
> -release of binutils.
> +The build system has recently switched to using thin archives (`ar T`) rather
> +than incremental linking (`ld -r`) for built-in.o intermediate steps. This
> +requires binutils 2.20 or newer.

Sorry for my nit-picking.

If you see this document some years later,
"recently" may not be so recent.

Currently, this part is written like that already,
but perhaps is it better to reword it a bit?



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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