Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of most trees

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi Nicholas,

On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:49:52 +1000 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It could be this
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git/commit/?h=thin-ar&id=ec2c9c20f0efab37ae31de44fe0617aa61283905
> 
>     kbuild: handle libs-y archives separately from built-in.o archives
> 
> That touches the lib linking code regardless of CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVE.
> You should be able to revert it by itself (which will break a few
> other archs, so you would also have to revert the default y patch
> for thin archives to repair your tree if this is the cause).

Yeah, reverting that commit fixes the sparc64 build. (i have not done
that in today;s linux-next release, however).

> I'll try to get around to it after I fix up some other arch breakage
> caused by the series :)

Thanks.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell