From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: remove meaningless KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:46:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190718204631.GV20882@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7LNAR7jkq1fAi_=xgsANCkgP2AAej9Yv7RZB3B_cpD7C_71Q@mail.gmail.com>
Hi!
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:19:58AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:46 AM Segher Boessenkool
> <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Kbuild always uses thin archives as far as vmlinux is concerned.
>
> But, there are some other call-sites.
>
> masahiro@pug:~/ref/linux$ git grep '$(AR)' -- :^Documentation :^tools
> arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile: BOOTAR := $(AR)
> arch/unicore32/lib/Makefile: $(Q)$(AR) p $(GNU_LIBC_A) $(notdir $@) > $@
> arch/unicore32/lib/Makefile: $(Q)$(AR) p $(GNU_LIBGCC_A) $(notdir $@) > $@
> lib/raid6/test/Makefile: $(AR) cq $@ $^
> scripts/Kbuild.include:ar-option = $(call try-run, $(AR) rc$(1)
> "$$TMP",$(1),$(2))
> scripts/Makefile.build: cmd_ar_builtin = rm -f $@; $(AR)
> rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(real-prereqs)
> scripts/Makefile.lib: cmd_ar = rm -f $@; $(AR)
> rcsTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(real-prereqs)
>
> Probably, you are interested in arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile.
That one seems fine actually. The raid6 one I don't know.
My original commit message was
Without this, some versions of GNU ar fail to create
an archive index if the object files it is packing
together are of a different object format than ar's
default format (for example, binutils compiled to
default to 64-bit, with 32-bit objects).
but I cannot reproduce the problem anymore. Shortly after my patch the
thin archive code happened to binutils, and that overhauled some other
things, which might have fixed it already?
> > Yes, I know. This isn't about built-in.[oa], it is about *other*
> > archives we at least *used to* create. If we *know* we do not anymore,
> > then this workaround can of course be removed (and good riddance).
>
> If it is not about built-in.[oa],
> which archive are you talking about?
>
> Can you pin-point the one?
No, not anymore. Lost in the mists of time, I guess? I think we'll
just have to file it as "it seems to work fine now".
Thank you (and everyone else) for the time looking at this!
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-18 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-13 3:21 [PATCH] powerpc: remove meaningless KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-13 12:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-13 13:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-13 22:45 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-13 23:54 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-15 7:05 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-15 7:29 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-15 12:03 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-15 18:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-16 7:14 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-16 12:15 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-17 14:38 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-17 15:19 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-17 16:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-18 2:19 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-18 20:46 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2019-07-19 3:39 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-08-19 4:25 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-08-28 4:24 ` Michael Ellerman
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