On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote: > Testing the latest kernel (3.16-rc3) I hit this build bug: > > VDSO2C arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c > Error: too many copied sections (max = 13) > /arch/x86/vdso/Makefile:61: recipe for target 'arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c' > failed > make[3]: *** [arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c] Error 1 > /scripts/Makefile.build:404: recipe for target 'arch/x86/vdso' failed > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/vdso] Error 2
I clearly need to improve that error message. Sigh. > > I bisected it down to this commit: > > commit 0e3727a8839c988a3c56170bc8da76d55a16acad > Author: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> > Date: Wed Jun 18 15:59:49 2014 -0700 > > x86/vdso: Remove some redundant in-memory section headers > > When I revert this commit, it compiles fine. Weird. Reverting that commit should be safe, but I'd like to understand what's happening. > > I built my gcc and binutils from their sources unmodified: > > gcc 4.6.0 > > binutils 2.21 > I just successfully built your config, albeit with a different toolchain. Can you do: for i in arch/x86/vdso/*.so.dbg; do echo $i; eu-readelf -S $i; done after a failed build? Let the game of section whack-a-mole begin. Thanks, Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
