Re: building in 32bit chroot on x86_64 host broken

[Masahiro Yamada]

2018-06-08 4:49 GMT+09:00 Thomas Backlund <tmb@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Den 2018-06-07 kl. 22:40, skrev Linus Torvalds:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:35 PM Thomas Backlund <tmb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I can work around it for now (or keep the revert in our kernel builds
>>> for now) until it gets properly fixed...
>>
>> So rather than doing the revert, it's probably better if  your
>> workaround just does
>>
>>     make ARCH=i386 oldconfig
>>
>> (or maybe even just a "export ARCH=i386" in the environment)
>>
>> That should get you to continue to otherwise do the same thing.
>>
>> And if it turns out that your flow is the *only* one affected by this,
>> and nobody else complains, maybe we can just say "yeah, slight change
>> in build rules, easy to work around" and leave it at that.
>>
>>                  Linus
>
>
> Yeah, I can live with that too :)
>
> I just wanted to point out the regression in case it was not (sort of)
> intentional...



If you want to do 'make oldconfig' without setting ARCH,
maybe the following could work.



diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 019a5a0..b491e86 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ export VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL KERNELRELEASE
KERNELVERSION
 # then ARCH is assigned, getting whatever value it gets normally, and
 # SUBARCH is subsequently ignored.

-SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/ \
+SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/x86_64/x86/ \
                                  -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \
                                  -e s/arm.*/arm/ -e s/sa110/arm/ \
                                  -e s/s390x/s390/ -e s/parisc64/parisc/ \


or


diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 019a5a0..3586967 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ export VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL KERNELRELEASE
KERNELVERSION
 # then ARCH is assigned, getting whatever value it gets normally, and
 # SUBARCH is subsequently ignored.

-SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/ \
+SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ \
                                  -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \
                                  -e s/arm.*/arm/ -e s/sa110/arm/ \
                                  -e s/s390x/s390/ -e s/parisc64/parisc/ \





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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada