linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: disable vdso_test to avoid breakage with old glibc

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Message-ID: <541A261B.90208@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:23:55 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
CC:	sfr@...b.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: disable vdso_test to avoid breakage with
 old glibc

On 09/16/14 17:09, Peter Foley wrote:
> glibc versions older than 2.16 don't include sys/auxv.h which this
> executable uses.
> Since we don't have a good way to test for specific glibc versions in
> kbuild, just disable it for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>

Applied.  Thanks.

> ---
>  Documentation/vDSO/Makefile | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/vDSO/Makefile b/Documentation/vDSO/Makefile
> index d87bb29..2b99e57 100644
> --- a/Documentation/vDSO/Makefile
> +++ b/Documentation/vDSO/Makefile
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> -# List of programs to build
> -hostprogs-y := vdso_test
> +# vdso_test won't build for glibc < 2.16, so disable it
> +# hostprogs-y := vdso_test
>  hostprogs-$(CONFIG_X86) := vdso_standalone_test_x86
>  vdso_standalone_test_x86-objs := vdso_standalone_test_x86.o parse_vdso.o
>  vdso_test-objs := parse_vdso.o vdso_test.o
> 


-- 
~Randy
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