Re: Linux 5.11-rc6 compile error

[Shuah Khan]

On 2/3/21 1:06 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 11:58 AM Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ld: arch/x86/built-in.a: member arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.o in archive
> > is not an object
> > make: *** [Makefile:1170: vmlinux] Error 1
>
> That honestly sounds like something went wrong earlier - things like
> doing a system upgrade in the middle of the build, or perhaps running
> out of disk space or similar.
>
> I've not seen any other reports of the same, and google doesn't find
> anything like that either.
>
> Does it keep happening if you do a "git clean -dqfx" to make sure you
> have no old corrupt object files sound and re-do the whole build?
>
>              Linus

My bad. I was playing with two test systems this morning and totally
lost track. All is well after a "make clean" and make.

Sorry for the noise.

thanks,
-- Shuah