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On 29 Jan 2016 19:55, Alex McWhirter wrote: |
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> On 01/29/2016 07:44 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On 29 Jan 2016 19:28, Alex McWhirter wrote: |
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> >> Regarding the issue with pcitutils, it is indeed and issue with gold. It |
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> >> turns out udev is broken as well, as in it wont start. |
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> >> binutils has supposedly fixed this issue upstream, i may try to emerge |
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> >> 9999 later tonight. perhaps eudev fairs a bit better than udev? Would |
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> >> there be any issue with moving to eudev as a default? |
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> > arches should not be picking any defaults like udev. we should be using |
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> > the same default across all linux systems. especially if the only point |
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> > is to workaround a bug in gold. |
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> > is the fix in binutils-2.26 ? that's going into the tree in a bit ... |
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> > i'm waiting for some feedback from upstream before i push it. |
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> I can check to see if the fix is in .26, but eudev does work without |
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> issue for what it's worth. pciutils is also compiling without issue with |
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> eudev. |
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> I will try pulling 9999 and see if the issue is no longer there, if it's |
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> been resolved there then ill check into .26 |
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> Without that fix, sparc64 is probably a no-go. I suppose we could always |
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> patch .25 if needed. |
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why ? as i said, gold is not the default, and we don't hold up issues |
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because of gold compatibility. if sparc64 w/ld.bfd works fine, then |
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that's all we need. |
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-mike |