On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 16:13 +1100, Sam Bobroff wrote: > It can currently be difficult to diagnose a build that fails due to > the compiler, linker or other parts of the toolchain being unable to > build binaries of the type required by the kernel config. For example > using a little endian toolchain to build a big endian kernel may > produce: > > as: unrecognized option '-maltivec' > > This patch adds a basic compile test and error message to > arch/powerpc/Makefile so that the above error becomes: > > *** Sorry, your toolchain seems to be broken or incorrect. *** > Make sure it supports your kernel configuration (ppc64). > > Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobr...@au1.ibm.com> > ---
How is this more useful than getting to actually see the way in which the toolchain (or the CFLAGS) is broken? -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
