Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755208AbaJHVVz (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2014 17:21:55 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f47.google.com ([209.85.218.47]:60230 "EHLO mail-oi0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755149AbaJHVVy (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2014 17:21:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141008160956.7584d303@as> References: <20141008154659.31f46436@as> <5435A4A4.1070101@zytor.com> <20141008160956.7584d303@as> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 17:21:53 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: PmKkHwmr1uZmDCFgef7HD-nPfxA Message-ID: Subject: Re: vdso_standalone_test_x86.c build failure on Linus' tree From: Josh Boyer To: Chuck Ebbert Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Foley , Randy Dunlap , Jiri Kosina , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 13:55:00 -0700 > "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > >> On 10/08/2014 01:46 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: >> > >> > Fedora doesn't cross-compile i686 builds because of problems like >> > this. It sets up an i386 chroot and runs all native tools inside of >> > it. >> > >> >> Breaking cross-compilation is not okay, though, regardless of what >> Fedora does. It should be okay to, for example, build an i386 kernel on >> an ARM box. >> > > I think they tried that for a while, and ended up chasing compiler > and makefile bugs all day. And then there's the software that wants > to run self-tests as part of its build... The Fedora kernel package cross builds the other way (ARM on i386) just fine. It might build ARM->i386 as well, but that's less useful. At any rate, Peter is talking about the kernel, not software in general. josh -- 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/