Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Disable RELOCATABLE for COMPILE_TEST with PPC64

[Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>]

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Hi Guenter,

On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:45:30 -0700 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>
> powerpc:allmodconfig has been failing for some time with the following
> error.
> 
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:1312: Error: attempt to move .org backwards
> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o] Error 1
> 
> A number of attempts to fix the problem by moving around code have been
> unsuccessful and resulted in failed builds for some configurations and
> the discovery of toolchain bugs.
> 
> Fix the problem by disabling RELOCATABLE for COMPILE_TEST builds instead.
> While this is less than perfect, it avoids substantial code changes
> which would otherwise be necessary just to make COMPILE_TEST builds
> happy and might have undesired side effects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

I'll dump this in my "fixes" tree today and see how it goes.

Thanks.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au

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