Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751473AbWJPGnn (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:43:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751478AbWJPGnn (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:43:43 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:61084 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751473AbWJPGnm (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:43:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:36:02 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Nicholas Miell Cc: Jan Beulich , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [build bug] x86_64, -git: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.cfi_signal_frame' Message-ID: <20061016063602.GA4392@elte.hu> References: <20061016061037.GA12020@elte.hu> <1160980603.2388.9.camel@entropy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1160980603.2388.9.camel@entropy> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.8 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.8 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts 0.5 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5000] -0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1122 Lines: 31 * Nicholas Miell wrote: > The kernel build system is supposed to detect gas support for > .cfi_signal_frame -- and while the i386 test is obviously broken (the > i386 test for the directive doesn't actually use the directive), the > AMD64 test looks like it should work (assuming as-instr works). the broken one is: GNU assembler 2.14.90.0.8 20040114 the working one is: GNU assembler 2.16.91.0.6 20060212 i guess i found the reason for the breakage: i was using a cross-compiling setup via the following script: make -j165 bzImage ARCH=x86_64 CC='distcc /opt/crosstool/gcc-4.0.2-glibc-2.3.6/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc' Note that i override 'CC' instead of specifying a 'CROSS' prefix. I suspect this means as-instr does not switch over to the cross-environment and thus mis-detected the gas version? Ingo - 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/