Re: new objtool warnings again...

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 02:06:03PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > So this code is clearly missing the magic to tell gcc that the asm
> > needs a frame pointer.
> 
> Independently of that, the objtool build seems racy or somehow
> fragile. I've now twice gotten into a situation where I end up getting
> 
>   cat: /home/torvalds/v2.6/linux/tools/objtool/.fixdep.o.d: No such
> file or directory
>   make[4]: *** [/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux/tools/objtool/fixdep.o] Error 1
>   make[3]: *** [/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux/tools/objtool/fixdep-in.o] Error 2
>   make[2]: *** [fixdep] Error 2
>   make[1]: *** [objtool] Error 2
>   make: *** [tools/objtool] Error 2
> 
> with just the right timings, and then ccache ends up remembering that
> as a build failure and causing that to be "sticky" even across "git
> clean -dqfx" builds (and the "ccache -C" clears it).
> 
> Adding Michal to the cc, in case he can see what the problem is.

I just started seeing this problem today.  I suspect it's a ccache
issue, since it only showed up after ccache was updated.  I "fixed" it
with:

  yum downgrade ccache

I'll open a bug...

-- 
Josh