On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 9:06 AM <zhe.he@windriver.com> wrote:
From: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>

This is a workaround for the following possible build failure.

*** Compiler lacks asm-goto support.. Stop.

When building linux-libc-headers we need to use binutils on build machine.
binutils v2.31 introduces a bug that could cause scripts/gcc-goto.sh to fail
when running in an environment where /tmp is rarely used, e.g. in docker.

Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
---
v2: Improve commit log
v3: Shorten long lines as patchwork suggested
v4: Shorten subject line...

 ...-fixed-temporary-file-instead-of-pipe-for.patch | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 .../linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers_4.18.bb  |  4 ++
 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers/0001-scripts-Use-fixed-temporary-file-instead-of-pipe-for.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers/0001-scripts-Use-fixed-temporary-file-instead-of-pipe-for.patch b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers/0001-scripts-Use-fixed-temporary-file-instead-of-pipe-for.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d8fa80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers/0001-scripts-Use-fixed-temporary-file-instead-of-pipe-for.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+From 3bbea65e11918f8753e8006a2198b999cdb0af58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
+Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:12:43 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] scripts: Use fixed temporary file instead of pipe for
+ here-doc
+
+There was a bug of "as" in binutils that when it checks if the input file and
+output file are the same one, it would not check if they are on the same block
+device. The check is introduced by the following commit in v2.31.
+
+https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=
+67f846b59b32f3d704c601669409c2584383fea9


Can you double check the links to the upstream changes ? They didn't work
for me.

 
+
+The here-doc usage in this script creates temporary file in /tmp. When we run in
+an environment where /tmp has rarely been used, the newly created temporary file
+may have a very low inode number. If the inode number was 6 which is the same as
+/dev/null, the as would wrongly think the input file and the output file are the
+same and report the following error.
+
+*** Compiler lacks asm-goto support.. Stop.
+
+One observed case happened in docker where the /tmp could be so rarely used that
+very low number inode may be allocated and triggers the error.
+
+The fix below for the bug only exists on the master branch of binutils so far
+and has not been released from upstream. As the convict is introduced since
+v2.31, only v2.31 is affected.
+
+https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=
+2a50366ded329bfb39d387253450c9d5302c3503

+
+When building linux-libc-headers we need to use "as" in binutils which does not
+contain the fix for the moment. To work around the error, we create a fixed
+temporary file to contain the program being tested.
+
+This patch also removes ">/dev/null 2>&1" so we will have more direct error
+information in case something else wrong happened.
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [A work around for binutils v2.31]

It would be nice to have a way to test for the host binutils version, since without it
we have no way to know when we can stop carrying this change. 

Not that the change is all that complex or should cause any problems, it is just
very open ended without a check.

Did you look into any conditional way to test the binutils in the recipe and only
patch if required ?

Bruce

 
+
+Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
+---
+ scripts/gcc-goto.sh | 7 ++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/scripts/gcc-goto.sh b/scripts/gcc-goto.sh
+index 083c526..0aaf1b4 100755
+--- a/scripts/gcc-goto.sh
++++ b/scripts/gcc-goto.sh
+@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
+ # Test for gcc 'asm goto' support
+ # Copyright (C) 2010, Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
+
+-cat << "END" | $@ -x c - -c -o /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "y"
++TMPFILE=`mktemp -p .`
++
++cat << "END" > ${TMPFILE}
+ int main(void)
+ {
+ #if defined(__arm__) || defined(__aarch64__)
+@@ -20,3 +22,6 @@ entry:
+       return 0;
+ }
+ END
++
++$@ -x c ${TMPFILE} -c -o /dev/null && echo "y"
++rm ${TMPFILE}
+--
+2.7.4
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers_4.18.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers_4.18.bb
index eb7bee7..00420aa 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers_4.18.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers_4.18.bb
@@ -9,5 +9,9 @@ SRC_URI_append_libc-musl = "\
     file://0001-include-linux-stddef.h-in-swab.h-uapi-header.patch \
    "

+SRC_URI_append = "\
+    file://0001-scripts-Use-fixed-temporary-file-instead-of-pipe-for.patch \
+"
+
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "bee5fe53ee1c3142b8f0c12c0d3348f9"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "19d8bcf49ef530cd4e364a45b4a22fa70714b70349c8100e7308488e26f1eaf1"
--
2.7.4

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