Latest GCC version emit many warnings similar to the following one. As arch/powerpc code is built with -Werror, this breaks build with GCC 8.1
This patch inhibits that warning Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr> --- arch/powerpc/Makefile | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile index 26ccd0b91512..d6c557530ce8 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile @@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += $(call cc-option,-mno-pointers-to-nested-functions) CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC32) := -ffixed-r2 $(MULTIPLEWORD) CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC32) += $(call cc-option,-mno-readonly-in-sdata) +CFLAGS-y += $(call cc-option,-Wno-attribute-alias) + ifeq ($(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64),y) ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN),y) CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU) += -mcpu=power8 -- 2.13.3
