Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Oct 2014 18:08:07 -0500 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: vdso_standalone_test_x86.c build failure on Linus' tree |
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On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:21:00 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> 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.
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