Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the compiler-attributes tree

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Thu Aug 29 2019 - 18:54:46 EST


On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 12:52 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Caused by commit
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> e81c903fb9e2 ("powerpc: prefer __section and __printf from compiler_attributes.h")
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> I have reverted that commit for today.
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> gcc v9.2.1 (in case that matters)
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> The above error is from the PowerPC boot wrapper that is built without
> the kernel headers (mainly, I think).

Yeah, we just saw it, I was about to drop it from the queue. It is
indeed because we don't have those __* defines within the compilation
environment of the kernel.

Cheers,
Miguel