Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:52:18 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected |
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > > > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > > > > > The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random and > > > > predictible ways. H.J. stated: > > > > > > s/predictable/unpredictable? > > > > No. It fails randomly, but also predictable. Enable X32 support on 64bit > > and it fails the VDSO build. That's been the case for years. > > Then please make this a bit more apparent, such as: > > "The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random > but also in more predictible ways."
<bikeshedding> How about:
The gold linker has known issues of failing for certain configurations.
</bikeshedding>
- Ted
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