Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754252AbaJHXIO (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2014 19:08:14 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f47.google.com ([209.85.218.47]:54928 "EHLO mail-oi0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750922AbaJHXIN (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2014 19:08:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 18:08:07 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Josh Boyer , Peter Foley , Randy Dunlap , Jiri Kosina , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: vdso_standalone_test_x86.c build failure on Linus' tree Message-ID: <20141008180807.276dbf7c@as> In-Reply-To: <5435AABC.2010902@zytor.com> References: <20141008154659.31f46436@as> <5435A4A4.1070101@zytor.com> <20141008160956.7584d303@as> <5435AABC.2010902@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:21:00 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > On 10/08/2014 02:09 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > >> > >> 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... > > > > That we can't solve, but it is not okay to break the kernel build. > Also, as Andy pointed out, when building for x86_64 we probably want to build both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of most test programs like this one. -- 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/