Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] MIPS: VDSO: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:18:06AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Currently, the VDSO is being linked through $(CC). This does not match
> how the rest of the kernel links objects, which is through the $(LD)
> variable.

this causes build errors for me when (cross) compiling a big endian target:

target is little endian
mips64-linux-gnu-ld: arch/mips/vdso/elf.o: endianness incompatible with that of the selected emulation
mips64-linux-gnu-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file arch/mips/vdso/elf.o

Thomas.

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