Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] tools/bpf: fix build with binutils >= 2.28

[Roman Gushchin]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 04:22:51PM +0000, Quentin Monnet wrote:
> 2017-12-19 16:10 UTC+0000 ~ Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 03:57:02PM +0000, Quentin Monnet wrote:
> >> Hi Roman, thanks for working on this!
> >>
> >>
> >> I discussed this issue with Jakub recently, and one suggestion he had
> >> was to look in tools/build/feature to add a new "feature", by trying to
> >> compile short programs, for making the distinction between binutils
> >> versions. It probably requires more work, but could be more robust than
> >> parsing the version from the command line?
> > 
> > Hm, might be an option. Parsing readelf output is pretty ugly, here I agree.
> > In general it feels more like a binutils issue, so we have to workaround it
> > in either way.
> > 
> > Is Jakub or someone else working on it?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> 
> Jakub isn't. On our side, I noticed last week that there was this change
> in binutils, and started to have a look at how these "features" work.
> But I have nothing that works so far, so feel free to tackle this.
> 
> Quentin

Hi Quentin!

Can you, please, check that the patch below works in your environment.

Thanks!

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