[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] kvmtool: bump to f77d646ba0

Matthew Weber matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com
Wed Dec 6 13:46:38 UTC 2017


Thomas,

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:59 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:05:42 -0600, Matthew Weber wrote:
>
> > Gustavo, the latest kvmtool switched to doing the final link with gcc
> > vs originally ld.  I believe this is the right fix.
> >
> >       3 --- a/package/kvmtool/kvmtool.mk
> >       4 +++ b/package/kvmtool/kvmtool.mk
> >       5 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ KVMTOOL_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
> >       6  # If more packages need this (unlikely) an ld wrapper might be a better
> >       7  # solution, using gcc -dumpspecs information.
> >       8  KVMTOOL_EXTRA_LDFLAGS = \
> >       9 -       $(if $(BR2_x86_64),-m elf_x86_64)
> >      10 +       $(if $(BR2_x86_64),-m64)
>
> If kvmtool is now building with gcc, do we need -m64 at all ?
>

That's true, gcc would already be assuming m64 based on the target's
arch vs the linker wouldn't have been able to infer that.  I'll remove
and kickoff a test.

> Also Matt: I wouldn't expect much feedback from Gustavo, he has stopped
> contributing to Buildroot earlier this year, and has removed himself
> from the DEVELOPERS file.

Noted.


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