Re: building in 32bit chroot on x86_64 host broken

[Thomas Backlund]

Den 2018-06-05 kl. 21:11, skrev Linus Torvalds:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:51 AM Thomas Backlund <tmb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is this intentional ? If so, why ? If not, how can I fix it ?
> It shouldn't be intentional. And I don't see anythin ghaving changed
> in this area. We still have
>
>    config 64BIT
>          bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86"
>          default ARCH != "i386"
>
> which is what it was in 4.16 too.
>
> Of course, we also have (in the main Makefile)
>
>    SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/ \
>
> and
>
>    ARCH            ?= $(SUBARCH)
>
> so if you don't set ARCH explicitly, it will always translate "i686"
> into "x86", so it will default to 64-bit.
>
> None of this is new to 4.17, though. Are you sure you didn't use to
> have an ARCH=i386 somewhere?
>
> Because this works for me:
>
>      make ARCH=i386 oldconfig
>
> and it's how I have done cross-builds before (although honestly, I
> don't do them very often).
>
> But adding Masahiro to the cc in case he sees something I've missed.
>
> Of course, doing a bisect on *when* it broke for you would be good
> too. You don't need to actually build the kernel, you can just bisect
> the configuration phase (and even automate it with "git bisect run" if
> you want to).
>
>                   Linus


Taking back the earlier " IGNORE " part...

This happends on the 64bit host:

# make ARCH=i386 oldconfig

--- .config.old 2018-06-05 21:17:07.829954548 +0300
+++ .configÂÂÂÂ 2018-06-05 21:17:43.367487580 +0300
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
Â#
Â# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
-# Linux/i386 4.16.12 Kernel Configuration
+# Linux/i386 4.17.0 Kernel Configuration
Â#
-# CONFIG_64BIT is not set




So something _does_ strip away the needed config bit

So any ideas, or should I start bisecting ?

--
Thomas