[PATCH RESEND] powerpc/tools: drop `-o pipefail` in gcc check scripts
Josh Poimboeuf
jpoimboe at kernel.org
Fri Nov 21 07:15:56 AEDT 2025
On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 02:56:05PM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 05:32:16PM +0200, Jan Stancek wrote:
> > We've been observing rare non-deterministic kconfig failures during
> > olddefconfig, where ARCH_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY was getting
> > disabled and with it number of other config options that depend on it.
> >
> > The reason is that gcc-check-fpatchable-function-entry.sh can fail
> > if `grep -q` (or scripts/dummy-tools/gcc) is fast enough to exit while
> > there is still someone writing on other side of pipe. `pipefail`
> > propagates that error up to kconfig.
>
> Ping? This fixes a nasty build bug, any objections to merging?
Ping?
--
Josh
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