On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 05:05:34PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> writes: > > Yes, that is why I used the environment variable, all binutils work > > with that. There was no --target option in GNU ar before 2.22. > > Yeah, we're not very good at testing with really old binutils, so I > guess we broke that. > > I'm inclined to merge this, it doesn't seem to break anything, and it > fixes using --target on old binutils that don't have it.
But we don't set the target any other way either. I don't think this will work with a 32-bit toolchain (default target 32 bit) and a 64-bit kernel, or the other way around. Then again, does that work at *all* nowadays? Do we even consider that important, *should* it work? Segher