Re: vdso_standalone_test_x86.c build failure on Linus' tree

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/08/2014 02:09 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>>
>> Breaking cross-compilation is not okay, though, regardless of what
>> Fedora does.  It should be okay to, for example, build an i386 kernel on
>> an ARM box.
>>
> 
> I think they tried that for a while, and ended up chasing compiler
> and makefile bugs all day. And then there's the software that wants
> to run self-tests as part of its build...
> 

That we can't solve, but it is not okay to break the kernel build.

	-hpa

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