Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.4

[Guenter Roeck]

On 01/13/2016 09:44 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 12:38 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Hi GÃnter,
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 09:29:52AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> > > > <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > JFYI, when comparing v4.4[1] to v4.4-rc8[3], the summaries are:
> > > > >    - build errors: +13/-13
> > > > > [1] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/9774/ (all 259 configs)
> > > >
> > > >    + /tmp/ccnzCwY6.s: Error: can't resolve `_start' {*UND* section} -
> > > > `L0^A' {.text section}:  => 43
> > > >    + /tmp/ccyAN6Ix.s: Error: can't resolve `_start' {*UND* section} -
> > > > `L0^A' {.text section}:  => 43
> > > >
> > > > Various MIPS, the saga continues...
> > >
> > > Hi Geert,
> > >
> > > do you know which version of binutils is used by kisskb ?
> > > If it is 2.23.90 or similar (ie below 2.24 and third level version
> > > has more than one digit), there is a patch pending to fix it.
> >
> > No, I don't know.
>
> It dumps the GCC version, but not binutils. I should add that one day.
>
> The mips toolchain is pretty old, so it's using binutils 2.22. Are you saying I
> need to update it?

Hopefully not. Mainline should build for you now, and we'll have
to make sure that commit d5ece1cb074b is applied to 4.4.

Guenter