Debian Bug report logs - #87037
gratuitous change in binutils breaks kernel compiles, amongst others

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Ricardo Galli" <gallir@uib.es>
To: <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Cc: "Bulma" <bulmailing@m3dlx1.uib.es>
Subject: Unstable kernel-package fails compiling the kernel
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 16:57:20 +0100

Package: kernel-package
Version: 7.34

When it compiles the kernel with "make-kpkg kernel_image" , it calls "ld"
with the option "-oformat binary", a hyphen is missing, it must use
"--oformat binary" instead


I am using Debian unstable upgraded a couple of hours ago (Feb 22, 15hs).


--ricardo
http://m3d.uib.es/~gallir/

Message #10 received at 87037@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Ricardo Galli" <gallir@uib.es>
To: <87037@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: FW: Bug#87037: Acknowledgement (Unstable kernel-package fails compiling the kernel)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:07:03 +0100

The tested kernel was 2.4.2

--ricardo
http://m3d.uib.es/~gallir/ 



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Subject: Bug#87037: Acknowledgement (Unstable kernel-package fails
compiling the kernel)


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Message #15 received at 87037@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
To: "Ricardo Galli" <gallir@uib.es>, 87037@bugs.debian.org
Cc: control@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#87037: Unstable kernel-package fails compiling the kernel
Date: 23 Feb 2001 00:57:01 -0600

severity 87037 grave
retitle 87037 gratuitous change in binutils breaks kernel compiles, amongst others
reassign 87037 binutils
thanks,

Hi,

	kernel-package does not call ld directly, this is the kernel
 makefile breaking. I think this is a critical bug in bintuils, which
 changed its user interface suddenly, with no thought to backwards
 compatibility, or to an upgrade path.

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Message #26 received at 87037@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org>
To: srivasta@debian.org
Cc: 87037@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Processed: Re: Bug#87037: Unstable kernel-package fails compiling
 the kernel
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:20:34 -0500 (EST)

> kernel-package does not call ld directly, this is the kernel
> makefile breaking. I think this is a critical bug in bintuils, which
> changed its user interface suddenly, with no thought to backwards
> compatibility, or to an upgrade path.

Actually, backwards compatability was always there.  --oformat has worked
since early on.  IIRC, also, the kernel cabal (aka Alan Cox and Linus) was
notified that this was coming at least two kernel revisions ago (possibly
even prior to the 2.4.0 release).  Why they chose not to fix it is beyond
me, but as it stands, upstream decided to drop -oformat and I agree on
their reasons.  My latest upload notes the change in the postinst, which
is the best that I can do, given the circumstances.  As it stands, I don't
consider it a bug, personally, since it should've been addressed sooner by
kernel folk and also since I've now addressed it in the postinst.  I'll
keep this bug and the others open until after tomorrow's dinstall run, but
after that, they're all probably going to be closed.

This is the fifth bug report that I've gotten about the same thing today
and I'm expecting at least another five before the dinstall run tomorrow
:-)

C

Message #31 received at 87037@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
To: "Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org>
Cc: 87037@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Processed: Re: Bug#87037: Unstable kernel-package fails compiling the kernel
Date: 23 Feb 2001 01:37:08 -0600

Hi,
>>"Christopher" == Christopher C Chimelis <chris@debian.org> writes:

 >> kernel-package does not call ld directly, this is the kernel
 >> makefile breaking. I think this is a critical bug in bintuils, which
 >> changed its user interface suddenly, with no thought to backwards
 >> compatibility, or to an upgrade path.

 Christopher> My latest upload notes the change in the postinst, which
 Christopher> is the best that I can do, given the circumstances.  As
 Christopher> it stands, I don't consider it a bug, personally, since
 Christopher> it should've been addressed sooner by kernel folk and
 Christopher> also since I've now addressed it in the postinst.


	well, I think asking about this in the preinst, and letting
 people abort, would be a better option, since then people choosing
 the old -oformat switch would still be able to do so. (you can
 explain what a bad idea it is in the preinst message, and perhaps
 mentions <kernel-source>/arch/{i386,mips}/boot/Makefile)

	manoj
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Message #36 received at 87037-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org>
To: 87037-done@bugs.debian.org, 87134-done@bugs.debian.org, 
    87139-done@bugs.debian.org, 87222-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Installed binutils 2.10.91.0.2-2 (alpha all source) (fwd)
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:42:33 -0500 (EST)

Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:36:12 -0500
Source: binutils
Binary: binutils-multiarch binutils-powerpc binutils-avr binutils-mipsel binutils-arm binutils-m68k binutils-dev binutils binutils-doc
Architecture: source alpha all
Version: 2.10.91.0.2-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Christopher C. Chimelis <chris@debian.org>
Changed-By: Christopher C. Chimelis <chris@debian.org>
Description: 
 binutils   - The GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities.
 binutils-arm - Binary utilities that support ARM targets.
 binutils-avr - Binary utilities that support Amtel's AVR targets.
 binutils-dev - The GNU binary utilities (BFD development files)
 binutils-doc - Documentation for the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities.
 binutils-m68k - Binary utilities that support Motorola m68k targets.
 binutils-mipsel - Binary utilities that support MIPS (Little Endian) targets.
 binutils-multiarch - Binary utilities that support multi-arch targets.
 binutils-powerpc - Binary utilities that support PowerPC targets.
Closes: 77610 78754 79948 81280 82702 86781 86995
Changes: 
 binutils (2.10.91.0.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Add support for SH and IA64 to binutils-multiarch.
   * Applied m68k gas patch from Michael Fedrowitz
     in hopes that this will fix the grave bug that
     has been such a pain to m68k folks.  I'll leave
     the bug open until it's verified that it works
     ok.
   * Applied IA-64 printf patch (closes: Bug#82702)
   * Kernels appear to be building fine with this
     release on all archs available to me
     (closes: Bug#77610)
   * Added text during postinst that informs users
     to modify their i386 kernel Makefiles for the
     --oformat change (closes: Bug#86995)
   * Incorporated remaining mips diffs that weren't
     already applied upstream (closes: Bug#81280)
   * Sparc/sparc64 patch seems to be doing fine, so
     closing the bug (closes: Bug#86781)
   * Added non-linux cross- package support to rules
     (closes: Bug#79948)
   * Close misc bugs:
     Missing info file in binutils-doc (closes: Bug#78754)
Files: 
 01463aa34710658aeb4c2dc6353d25f4 828 devel standard binutils_2.10.91.0.2-2.dsc
 d0fd235f7fb3811dcc258edbdeb7beb5 19718 devel standard binutils_2.10.91.0.2-2.diff.gz
 21e89d9de2bc9529f5c640fffee39ed8 410098 doc standard binutils-doc_2.10.91.0.2-2_all.deb
 9880d5dc01022e4a5d4c8ae62c9a19f4 2241776 devel extra binutils-avr_2.10.91.0.2-2_alpha.deb
 c064b556388a6648015e41c7b72aa9b3 2404718 devel extra binutils-arm_2.10.91.0.2-2_alpha.deb
 df5ebd92681e0f9196aa7eaf57e45c86 2640884 devel extra binutils-m68k_2.10.91.0.2-2_alpha.deb
 8db10b3eb6f4cf31ac017e7c25fed9a2 3714830 devel extra binutils-mipsel_2.10.91.0.2-2_alpha.deb
 91ea7716fa82b1ebf260419808523b3e 2938788 devel extra binutils-powerpc_2.10.91.0.2-2_alpha.deb
 3f2adfa205609d54310637d436d44031 1501892 devel standard binutils_2.10.91.0.2-2_alpha.deb
 839dee94f9a45bec9f4987f464f5abe4 423502 devel extra binutils-dev_2.10.91.0.2-2_alpha.deb
 16ff25cf2255f9d4ab0a93ebaa7072e1 2788122 devel extra binutils-multiarch_2.10.91.0.2-2_alpha.deb

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