From: Linus Torvalds > Sent: 15 August 2018 17:34 > To: David Laight > Cc: Guenter Roeck; Linux Kernel Mailing List; Rik van Riel; Mike Galbraith; > Dave Hansen; Andrew Morton > Subject: Re: Build failures with gcc 4.5 and older > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:16 AM David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > But some libelf bug that is less than a year old is likely to bite people. > > > > See https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/9/10/186 for the libelf fix. > > It isn't anything like as rare as those emails suggest. > > An 'allmodconfig' build fails on a lot of object files after 4.15-rc9. > > Ok, but that patch that fixes it was merged a long time ago already. > See commit 97dab2ae7e84 ("objtool: Fix object file corruption") > > So I'm a bit confused by your issue. The thing you point to from last > year was literall fixed and committed to the tree in a couple of days > days.
Hmmm... I still had to update from libelf-0.153.so to libelf-0.165.so in order to get the output from objtool to be valid. I'm sure I'd seen a patch to libelf as well. David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)