Build failure on treeboot-walnut.cg

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Oct 10 04:52:35 EST 2007


On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:06:05 -0500
Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com> wrote:

> David Gibson wrote:
> 
> > Policy.  Compiling everything means build bugs - like this one - can
> > be found by everybody, not just those building for the specific
> > obscure platform.
> 
> Is this a new policy?  Modules in the kernel are not built unless you want 
> them.  Even in arch/powerpc/platforms, only the specific platform file I'm 
> targeting is built.  So I don't really understand why you claim it's normal 
> for platform-specific files to be built, regardless of the actual platform.
> 
> And frankly, I don't like this "policy".  Build bugs for 4xx should not 
> interfere in my 83xx development.  I can't build any kernels now because of 
> this bug!

I fixed this bug.  It should be in Paul's latest tree.  You seem to be
having a different issue with your binutils though.

josh



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