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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