Bug#823224: non-sense: Re: Bug#823224: ld: arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o: No such file: No such file or directory
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Ben !
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>> Control: tag -1 upstream
>>
>> On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 15:07 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>> Package: src:linux
>>>
>>> On PPC:
>>>
>>> $ apt-get source linux-image-4.5.0-0.bpo.1-powerpc
>>> $ cd linux-4.5.1
>>> $ make oldconfig
>>
>> That should fail as there is no .config file to start from.
>
> Well in my case, `make oldconfig` did copy the older configuration
> properly for me.
>
>>> $ make modules_prepare
>>> $ make modules SUBDIRS=drivers/gpu/drm/radeon
>>>
>>> or equivalent:
>>>
>>> $ make drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko
>>>
>>> both fails with:
>>>
>>> ld: arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o: No such file: No such file or
>>> directory
>>>
>>> Easy fix is obviously:
>>>
>>> $ make arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o
>>>
>>> It would be nice to have proper deps setup.
>>
>> You should raise this upstream as it has nothing to do with the Debian
>> packaging.
>
> Just to understand correctly, the Makefile currently reads as:
>
> $ grep -3 CONFIG_476FPE_ERR46 arch/powerpc/Makefile
>
> KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE += arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o
>
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_476FPE_ERR46),y)
> KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE += --ppc476-workaround \
> -T $(srctree)/arch/powerpc/platforms/44x/ppc476_modules.lds
> endif
>
>
> So `CONFIG_476FPE_ERR46` does not need to be explicitly set within
> Debian setup, and must be a legacy variable that does not work anymore
> nowadays (and thus is indeed a bug upstream).
>
> Thanks for clarification.
Forget this non-sense. Sorry.
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