Re: Cross compile broken - 3.17.3 vs. 3.17.4?

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Nov 25 2014 - 17:01:21 EST


On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:15:35PM +0100, Mattias Schlenker wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> when cross compiling with a rather generic x86_64-linux-gnu toolchain I run
> into the problem that "make bzImage" fails. It seems vmlinux binary gets run
> through the hosts objdump and not the $(CROSS_COMPILE)objdump as it was in
> 3.17.3.
>
> I am not accustomed enough to kernel build habits to immediately spot the
> change that lead to this failed compile (178 files were changed between
> 3.17.3 and 3.17.4). But if you want, I am gonna provide you with a shell
> script that is able to set up the needed toolchain and succeed with 3.17.3
> and fail with 3.17.4. Given my current workload this will take around 48
> hours.

Or you can wait for
http://git.kernel.org/tip/e2e68ae688b0a3766cd75aedf4ed4e39be402009 to hit
3.17-stable.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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