On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 06:58:16PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Tony.
> >
> > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 04:15:44PM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> >> This patch is now in linux-next (tag next-20120507). But it looks to have
> >> broken the ia64 build. I see this error:
> >>
> >> CC init/version.o
> >> LD init/built-in.o
> >> KSYM .tmp_kallsyms1.o
> >> ld: .tmp_kallsyms1.o: linking constant-gp files with non-constant-gp files
> >> ld: failed to merge target specific data of file .tmp_kallsyms1.o
> >> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> >>
> >> which looks like we used the wrong compile options when building
> >> .tmp_kallsyms1.o
> >
> > Thanks for testing!
> >
> > Could you try if this helps.
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> > index 26c5b65..1f4c27b 100644
> > --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> > +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> > @@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ kallsyms()
> > kallsymopt=--all-symbols
> > fi
> >
> > - local aflags="${KBUILD_AFLAGS} ${NOSTDINC_FLAGS} \
> > - ${LINUXINCLUDE} ${KBUILD_CPPFLAGS}"
> > + local aflags="${KBUILD_AFLAGS} ${KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL} \
> > + ${NOSTDINC_FLAGS} ${LINUXINCLUDE} ${KBUILD_CPPFLAGS}"
>
> All the linux-next builds for mips are failing, which I tracked down to this.
> Applying the above update doesn't help. What is happening is that MIPS
> gets KBUILD_CPPFLAGS double-quoted, and then you get:
>
> + mips-wrs-linux-gnu-nm -n .tmp_vmlinux1
> + scripts/kallsyms
> + mips-wrs-linux-gnu-gcc -D__ASSEMBLY__ <..snip..> -D__KERNEL__
> '-D"VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS=0xffffffff81100000"' '-D"DATAOFFSET=0"' -c -o
> .tmp_kallsyms1.o -x assembler-with-cpp -
> <command-line>:0: error: macro names must be identifiers
> <command-line>:0: error: macro names must be identifiers
> make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>
> Note the '-D"VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS=0xffffffff81100000"' '-D"DATAOFFSET=0"'
> part -- that is what triggers the two above errors.
Hi Paul.
I will take a look at this tonight. Thanks for the report!
Sam
