Re: 4.17.x won't boot due to "x86/boot/compressed/64: Handle 5-level paging boot if kernel is above 4G"

[Benjamin Gilbert]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 11:11:10AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> There are valid use cases to override the flags. I use it sometimes too,
> and know some other people do to.
> 
> But you need to know what you're doing. 
> 
> Perhaps a warning during build would be reasonable. So if you ask
> for a build log you would see it.

In our case, the package is presumably passing LDFLAGS="" to override the
LDFLAGS environment variable already set by the packaging system.  This has
worked for years without a problem.

--Benjamin Gilbert