From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse•cz>
To: Mike Qiu <qiudayu@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg•org>,
linuxppc <linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org>,
linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel build fail with "Circular xxxx <- xxxx dependency dropped"
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:22:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <539849F6.8010501@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140611122104.GA24569@pobox.suse.cz>
Dne 11.6.2014 14:21, Michal Marek napsal(a):
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:24:24AM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>> Dne 11.6.2014 08:02, Mike Qiu napsal(a):
>>> make[1]: Circular arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S <-
>>> arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds dependency dropped.
>>> make[1]: Circular arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S <-
>>> arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds dependency dropped.
>>> make[1]: Circular arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S <-
>>> arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds dependency dropped.
>>> make[1]: Circular arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds.S <-
>>> arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds dependency dropped.
>>> make[1]: Circular arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds.S <-
>>> arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds dependency dropped.
>>> make[1]: Circular arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds.S <-
>>> arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds dependency dropped.
>>> WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds.S
>>> INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x14d0db8) overlaps the address of the
>>> wrapper(0x400000)
>>> INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x1500000)
>>> ld: cannot open linker script file arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds: No such
>>> file or directory
>>> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds.S] Error 1
>>> make: *** [zImage] Error 2
>>> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>>> MODPOST 1853 modules
>>>
>>> I use git bisect to find out the possible commits to lead this problem:
>>> 7e1c04779efd51154baf652e653ceb24ce68939b kbuild: Use relative path for
>>> $(objtree)
>>> 890676c65d699db3ad82e7dddd0cf8fb449031af kbuild: Use relative path when
>>> building in the source tree
>>> 9da0763bdd82572be243fcf5161734f11568960f kbuild: Use relative path when
>>> building in a subdir of the source tree
>>
>> Thanks for the report, I'll have a look. If I do not come up with a
>> solution soon, I'll revert the series.
>
> I have yet to test this, but can you try the patch below?
>
> Thanks!
> Michal
>
>
> From 7f8336f4c7f2131efbe82543580dda3ec1988609 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse•cz>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:53:48 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Avoid circular dependency with zImage.%
>
> The rule to create the final images uses a zImage.% pattern.
> Unfortunately, this also matches the names of the zImage.*.lds linker
> scripts, which appear as a dependency of the final images. This somehow
> worked when $(srctree) used to be an absolute path, but now the pattern
> matches too much. List only the images from $(image-y) as the target of
> the rule, to avoid the circular dependency.
>
If merged, this should of course have a Reported-by: Mike Qiu
<qiudayu@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-11 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-11 6:02 Kernel build fail with "Circular xxxx <- xxxx dependency dropped" Mike Qiu
2014-06-11 8:24 ` Michal Marek
2014-06-11 12:21 ` Michal Marek
2014-06-11 12:22 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2014-06-11 12:36 ` Mike Qiu
2014-06-11 15:40 ` [PATCH v2] powerpc: Avoid circular dependency with zImage.% Michal Marek
2014-06-12 2:07 ` Mike Qiu
2014-06-12 8:09 ` Michal Marek
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