Re: [BUILD-FAILURE] 2.6.27-rc1-mm1 - allyesconfig build fails onpowerpc

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Aug 01 2008 - 02:13:21 EST


On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:29:36 +1000 Tony Breeds <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 06:13:28PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > make allyesconfig with 2.6.27-rc1-mm1 kernel on powerpc fails with build error
>
> <snip>
>
> Turning off GCOV "fixes" this. Not really the best solution but at
> least it narrows doen the search effort.

Thanks.

> Peter,
> Can you have a look at how this can be fixed, if at all?
>

Am not terribly happy with the state of the gcov patches. They STILL
leave thousands of dead symlinks lying around after `make mrproper' and
generally seem to muck up the kbuild system a bit, although nothing
that a bit of Sam love wouldn't fix.

Plus it breaks the build on a few architectures (branch out of range,
mainly), but that's a fairly minor thing which could even be worked
around in Kconfig (disable the offending code if gcov is enabled)


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