linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree

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Date:	Tue, 1 Mar 2016 20:40:01 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree

Hi Ingo,

On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 08:07:50 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> > This build is done with a PowerPC hosted cross compiler with no glibc.  
> 
> Ugh, what a rare and weird way to build an x86 kernel, and you made linux-next 
> dependent on it?

It is just the fastest hardware I currently have access to (you remember
who I work for, right? ;-)).  I have always done at least part of the
linux-next building (daily, or overnight) on PowerPC hardware and this
is only the 2nd or third time in over 8 years that it has found an
issue like this.

> > I assume that some things here need to be built with HOSTCC?  
> 
> I suspect that's the culprit.

Good, hopefully it is not too hard to fix.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell