Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:44:07 -0700 | Subject | Re: Build failures with gcc 4.5 and older |
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 5:38 AM David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote: > > Never mind the version of gcc, the x86 kernel doesn't build with the > default kernel options because the ORC unwinder hits a bug in libelf > (in objtool) that was only fixed late last year. > > It isn't even obvious from the build log what has gone wrong.
Can you give more details? We should try to work around it.
It's one thing to care about a compiler that is almost a decade old. At some point we just have to let it go.
But some libelf bug that is less than a year old is likely to bite people.
Linus
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