Re: [PATCH] Documentation: disable vdso_test to avoid breakage with old glibc

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Sep 17 2014 - 20:24:06 EST


On 09/16/14 17:09, Peter Foley wrote:
> glibc versions older than 2.16 don't include sys/auxv.h which this
> executable uses.
> Since we don't have a good way to test for specific glibc versions in
> kbuild, just disable it for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied. Thanks.

> ---
> Documentation/vDSO/Makefile | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/vDSO/Makefile b/Documentation/vDSO/Makefile
> index d87bb29..2b99e57 100644
> --- a/Documentation/vDSO/Makefile
> +++ b/Documentation/vDSO/Makefile
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> -# List of programs to build
> -hostprogs-y := vdso_test
> +# vdso_test won't build for glibc < 2.16, so disable it
> +# hostprogs-y := vdso_test
> hostprogs-$(CONFIG_X86) := vdso_standalone_test_x86
> vdso_standalone_test_x86-objs := vdso_standalone_test_x86.o parse_vdso.o
> vdso_test-objs := parse_vdso.o vdso_test.o
>


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~Randy
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