[alsa-devel] Cannot build broadwell on for-5.3

[Guenter Roeck]

FWIW, the Linux kernel still officially supports our version of gcc
(4.9.4, I believe). "Your version of gcc is too old" is not a good
argument to make.

Guenter

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:30 AM Curtis Malainey
<cujomalainey at google.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 8:22 AM Pierre-Louis Bossart
> <pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >> It appears the for-5.3 branch had some broken commits pulled in at
> > >> 1c7c3237c0cc4ad3c7b0df458290c8e2a652f178 ("Merge tag 'v5.2-rc1' into
> > >> asoc-5.3 ")
> > >>
> > >> building for the pixelbook I get the following build errors:
> > >>
> > >> Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext
> > >> make[3]: *** [/mnt/host/source/src/third_party/kernel/v4.14/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:130:
> > >> arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs] Error 1
> > >> make[3]: *** Deleting file 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs'
> > >>
> > >> Mainline is still broken as well. Not sure how to propagate this up to
> > >> the responsible parties, figured I would start a discussion here
> > >> first. I am also open to suggestions if there is a chance I am missing
> > >> something.
> > >
> > > Looks like some leftover interfering the build.
> > > Try to cleanup your work directory, e.g. make distclean and rebuild.
> >
> > works for me with the attached .config.
> > Likely an environment problem.
> Yea, cleaning didn't help, Pierre is right, it appears to be tied to
> our gcc version we are stuck on. I will see what I can do to work
> around this. Thanks.
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