Re: 4.14.9 doesn't boot (regression)
From: Alexander Tsoy
Date: Fri Dec 29 2017 - 17:04:58 EST
Ð ÐÑ, 29/12/2017 Ð 13:39 -0800, Linus Torvalds ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, other reporters of this have used gcc-6.4.0 too.
> >
> > But there's been some muddying of the waters there too - changing
> > compilers have fixed it for some cases, but there's at least one
> > report that a kernel build with gcc-7.2.0 still had the issue (and
> > another that said it didn't).
>
> Side note: I'm not convinced that we will reliably catch a compiler
> version change in our dependency analysis, so it's probably best to
> "make clean" between switching compilers to make sure that you don't
> have old object files with the old compiler.
I did "make clean" after changing compiler flags.