Re: nds32 build failures

[Greentime Hu]

2018-04-17 20:47 GMT+08:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Greentime Hu <green.hu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2018-04-16 11:58 GMT+08:00 Guenter Roeck <private@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> This built failure is because the toolchain version you used is not
>> supported the latest intrinsic function/macro.
>> We are sending the latest patchset now and we expect the whole new
>> features will be supported in gcc8.0.0 and binutil2.31+.
>>
>> If you'd like to get these new features of toolchain, you may use the
>> github version.
>> This is the built-script repo. https://github.com/andestech/build_script.git
>
> I've taken the gcc-6.3 sources from there, and updated them to gcc-6.4.0
> in order to build a nds32le-linux toolchain based on the same version as
> the other ones.
>
> Unfortunately neither the usual binutils-2.29.1 nor your binutils worked
> for me, but I eventually managed to get a build using the binutils-2.30
> release.
>
> With this, I could build a mainline kernel with a couple of warnings,
> but an 'allmodconfig' build still failed.
>
> Guenter, can you try my binary from
> www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/6.4.0/x86_64-gcc-6.4.0-nolibc-nds32le-linux.tar.xz
> ?
>
> If that works for you, I'll update the front-page and remove the nds32-elf
> toolchains.
>
> Greentime, do you have a patch set for gcc-7.3 as well, or are 6.3 and 8.0 the
> only working compilers for nds32le-linux?
>

Hi, all:

I just discuss with our toolchain colleagues. We have only gcc6.3 and
gcc8.0 for nds32le-linux.
I have the ld segmentation fault issue too when building kernel with
'allmodconfig'. We are dealing with it.