Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi all,

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:44:14 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> 
> powerpc-linux-gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-m'
> scripts/Makefile.build:290: recipe for target 'arch/powerpc/purgatory/printf.o' failed
> 
> and a few more like that.

OK, this is (most likely) caused by the CONFIG_WORD_SIZE -> BITS change
interacting with the KEXEC_FILE changes. Tomorrow I will do a better
merge conflict resolution patch that fixes all those.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell