* Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this:
>
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-objcopy: unrecognized option `--globalize-symbol'
>
> Introduced by commit 46483cdbb5dc06d84d9572bac1b90f6744c7fc95 ("ftrace:
> create __mcount_loc section").
>
> The currently documented minimum requirements for binutils is 2.12.
>
> $ x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-objcopy --version
> GNU objcopy 2.16.1
>
> For now I have reverted commit c2ffd56692cc4b762c175fad69b70a4ec0dfca3f
> ("ftrace: enable using mcount recording on x86") since that is the least
> intrusive thing to do and the above change depends on
> CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD.
ok. The binutils i've used for testing is 2.18 and this is indeed a new
option since 2.17. Steve?
Ingo
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