On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:24:51PM +0000, James Page wrote:
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> > On 05/12/13 17:07, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 04:16:39PM +0000, James Page wrote:
> > >> Later versions of gcc on some architectures push atomic
> > >> functions out into a separate atomic library; add a check to see
> > >> when this is required and add it to LIBS if need be.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: James Page <james.p...@ubuntu.com>
> > >
> > > May I assume that you have tested this and it fixes the problem
> > > with the GCC versions and architectures that have the problems?
> > > Can you give an example of a GCC version and architecture that has
> > > the problem?
> >
> > I had a specific problem with GCC 4.8.2 on powerpc architecture for
> > Ubuntu 14.04:
> >
> >
> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/155235096/buildlog_ubuntu-trusty-powerpc.openvswitch_2.0.0-0ubuntu1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz
> >
> > this was fixed by adding -latomic for the test-atomic link; however
> > when I backported this package back to 12.04 (gcc 4.6.3) it fails to
> > find libatomic and breaks.
> >
> > I reworked the fix into this patch today.
>
> OK, great.  Will you add that to the commit log?  Thanks.
>

Never mind, I updated the commit log myself.
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getting blamed when it all blows up."               Andrew Morton
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