On 27 January 2018 at 13:38, Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 13:12:13 +0000 > Michael Fothergill <michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think I will sign up on the gcc gnu help page and ask people if they > > have a test case file I can run to 100% confirm the GCC 8 compiler is > > running properly. > > Once I am convinced it is then the next stage is to try to talk to the > > developers who maintain the make-kpkg program. > > are you still using gcc-8? Here this one didn't work at all for me, > compiling always aborted early with compiler errors. It worked > immediately though after I removed ggc-8 and upgraded gcc-7 to v. 7.3 > from sid. > In my case after I took you helpful advice and installed libelf-dev in GCC 8 (which I am still using) the crash I had went away......... I think now GCC 8 is close to working OK. Perhaps it needs another little nudge or some other package we don't know about. I have sent the gnu gcc help people the following email: ************************** Dear All, I am running debian unstable on an amd64 kaveri box. I recently installed GCC 8 from the Debian experimental site: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/devel/gcc-8 I also installed libelf-dev. It did run correctly without it. I have been using it to try to compile and install linux kernel 4.14.15 using the debian package make-kpkg. The output from doing this is here: https://pastebin.com/sgrhdCKW I copied over the config file from/boot and ran make-clean and the command: yes "" | make oldconfig before running make-kpkg. Kernel compilations I do in gentoo usually take a while. This ran too quickly I think. Something is not quite right here. Perhaps some more depedent packages needed to be installed to make GCC8 run happily. Do you have a test file I can compile that will check whether GCC 8 is really running correctly? The discussions on these two threads are relevant: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/01/msg01159.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/01/msg01002.html We are all trying to compile kernels that defeat the meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities. Comments appreciated. Regards MF ************************************ Maybe they can help here. Cheers MF > > Regards > > Michael > > .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. > > "It's hard to believe that something which is neither seen nor > felt can do so much harm." > "That's true. But an idea can't be seen or felt. And that's > what kept the Troglytes in the mines all these centuries. A mistaken > idea." > -- Vanna and Kirk, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5819.0 > >
