From 60e065f70bdb0b0e916389024922ad40f3270c96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:27:12 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Reject binutils 2.24 when building little endian There is a bug in binutils 2.24 which causes miscompilation if we're building little endian and using weak symbols (which the kernel does). It is fixed in binutils commit 57fa7b8c7e59 "Correct elf_merge_st_other arguments for weak symbols", which is in binutils 2.25 and has been backported to the binutils 2.24 branch and has been picked up by most distros it seems. However if we're running stock 2.24 (no extra version) then the bug is present, so check for that and bail. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- arch/powerpc/Makefile | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile index 3609504b0ad2..a314cb024c8b 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile @@ -339,6 +339,14 @@ checkbin: echo 'disable kernel modules' ; \ false ; \ fi + @if test "x${CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN}" = "xy" \ + && $(LD) --version | head -1 | grep ' 2\.24$$' >/dev/null ; then \ + echo -n '*** binutils 2.24 miscompiles weak symbols ' ; \ + echo 'in some circumstances.' ; \ + echo -n '*** Please use a different binutils version.' ; \ + false ; \ + fi + CLEAN_FILES += $(TOUT) -- 2.20.1