On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 09:24:20AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: > After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.10, I can't build kernels anymore unless > the following patch is applied to the kernel Makefile. A word of > caution for anybody that is planning to update their development > systems. > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/616621/ > > Please refer to the Ubuntu 16.10 release notes for more details. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseNotes#GCC > > Ubuntu is recommended applying this patch for building Linux kernels. > I am not sure this is the right way to go. I am hoping this is > work-around and patching the kernel Makefile will not be the solution > going forward. > > I haven't seen any patch sent upstream to make this change, so I still > hope this is a temporary work-around. Maybe be there is patch that > came through and you are aware of this problem?
Does commit 6d92bc9d483a solve this issue for you? That should have resolved a -pie issue, back in 4.6, or is this something else? thanks, greg k-h
