linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: Fix build of guest init with biarch powerpc compilers

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Date:	Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:51:11 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
Cc:	KVM General <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: Fix build of guest init with biarch powerpc compilers

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Michael Ellerman
<michael@...erman.id.au> wrote:
> On powerpc we build kvmtool as a 64bit binary. We do that by setting
> -m64 in our CFLAGS. For most things we just call $(CC) and it passes
> that info onto the linker.
>
> However there is one place where we explicitly call the linker, in the
> build of guest/init - and in that case we need to tell the linker to
> build 64bit.
>
> We have gotten away with this so far because we have been building with
> a 64bit only toolchain. However if you build with a biarch toolchain,
> which generally defaults to 32bit, we fail to link.
>
> The fix is to defined LDFLAGS appropriately and pass it to LD.
>
> Tested on powerpc and x86-64.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>

Applied, thanks a lot!
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