Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966510AbaFTAAR (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:00:17 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f50.google.com ([209.85.215.50]:43428 "EHLO mail-la0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965771AbaFTAAP (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:00:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <53A36831.8090901@zytor.com> References: <26fa44a597716445c134d21194170c292d46a421.1403129369.git.luto@amacapital.net> <53A36831.8090901@zytor.com> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:59:53 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86,vdso: Create .build-id links for unstripped vdso files To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Josh Boyer , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:46 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 06/18/2014 03:59 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> This may break make vdso_install with binutils before 2.17.50.0.17. >> On the other hand, make vdso_install was probably never useful with >> earlier binutils, since the installed files are AFAIK completely >> useless without build-id. >> > > How does it fail? If --build-id=none on modern binutils accurately replicates old binutils, it fails by silently creating a broken symlink called .debug. If you want this patch for 3.16, I can send a better version that just doesn't create the links on old binutils. > > -hpa > > -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/