Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:30:12 +1000

Hi all,

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:44:14 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> 
> powerpc-linux-gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-m'
> scripts/Makefile.build:290: recipe for target 'arch/powerpc/purgatory/printf.o' failed
> 
> and a few more like that.

OK, this is (most likely) caused by the CONFIG_WORD_SIZE -> BITS change
interacting with the KEXEC_FILE changes. Tomorrow I will do a better
merge conflict resolution patch that fixes all those.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell