Re: vdso_standalone_test_x86.c build failure on Linus' tree

[Chuck Ebbert]

On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:21:00 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Also, as Andy pointed out, when building for x86_64 we probably want
to build both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of most test programs like
this one.
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