On 27 January 2018 at 13:38, Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 13:12:13 +0000 > Michael Fothergill <michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think I will sign up on the gcc gnu help page and ask people if they > > have a test case file I can run to 100% confirm the GCC 8 compiler is > > running properly. > > Once I am convinced it is then the next stage is to try to talk to the > > developers who maintain the make-kpkg program. > > are you still using gcc-8? Here this one didn't work at all for me, > compiling always aborted early with compiler errors. It worked > immediately though after I removed ggc-8 and upgraded gcc-7 to v. 7.3 > from sid. > > Regards > > Michael > I have sent the kernel-source package maintainer the following email: ****************************************** Dear Sir, I understand that you are the package maintainer for kernel-source ie make-kpkg etc. within debian. I am running debian unstable (Sid)on an amd64 kaveri box. I installed GCC 8 from the experimental repository. I am trying to use it to compile the kernel 4.14.15 using make-kpkg to use the fixes for the meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities. The output from doing this is here: https://pastebin.com/sgrhdCKW Make-kpkg did not create any linux-image file ......?! I copied over the config file from/boot and ran make-clean and the command: yes "" | make oldconfig before running make-kpkg. Kernel compilations I do in gentoo (I am a gentoo user as well as a debian user) usually take a while. This ran too quickly I think. Something is not quite right here I think. It might be that more dependent packages needed to be installed to make GCC8 run happily. As a result I have sent an email to the gnu gcc help site ( gcc-h...@gcc.gnu.org) asking them for a test file to check that GCC8 is running correctly. But, maybe you might say that make-kpkg needs to be upgraded in some way to work correctly here and GCC 8 ran OK....... The discussions on these two threads are relevant to this case: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/01/msg01159.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/01/msg01002.html We are all trying to compile kernels that defeat the meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities. Comments appreciated. Regards etc ************************* Maybe will end up having to quit with GCC8 but it I am giving it one last attempt here. Cheers MF > > .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. > > "It's hard to believe that something which is neither seen nor > felt can do so much harm." > "That's true. But an idea can't be seen or felt. And that's > what kept the Troglytes in the mines all these centuries. A mistaken > idea." > -- Vanna and Kirk, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5819.0 > >
