linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of most trees

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Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:20:11 +1000
From:   Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of most trees

Hi Nicholas,

On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:49:52 +1000 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com> wrote:
>
> It could be this
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git/commit/?h=thin-ar&id=ec2c9c20f0efab37ae31de44fe0617aa61283905
> 
>     kbuild: handle libs-y archives separately from built-in.o archives
> 
> That touches the lib linking code regardless of CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVE.
> You should be able to revert it by itself (which will break a few
> other archs, so you would also have to revert the default y patch
> for thin archives to repair your tree if this is the cause).

Yeah, reverting that commit fixes the sparc64 build. (i have not done
that in today;s linux-next release, however).

> I'll try to get around to it after I fix up some other arch breakage
> caused by the series :)

Thanks.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell