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Message-ID: <20110912121114.GA8407@albatros> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:11:14 +0400 From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com> To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com Subject: gcc 4.6.x and kernel-2.6.18-ovz Solar, There is an issue with compiling RHEL5/OpenVZ kernel with gcc 4.6.1: CC arch/i386/kernel/kvmclock.o SYSCALL arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-syms.o gcc: error: elf_i386: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-syms.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... CC arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.o While this specific failure is trivial to fix, there are more of them, like this one: LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 kernel/built-in.o: In function `.text.lock.mutex': mutex.c:(.sched.text+0x186b): undefined reference to `__mutex_lock_slowpath' mutex.c:(.sched.text+0x1875): undefined reference to `__mutex_unlock_slowpath' make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 and I suspect we'll get more of weird build bugs (and runtime bugs perhaps) during RHEL6 kernel updates too as RHEL6 has gcc 4.4.5 (DW says so), but we'll have 4.6.1. Kir Kolyshkin suggested to use the same gcc version as RHELx has: http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1801 "The rule of thumb here is this: RHELx kernels are best to be compiled by gcc from RHELx, otherwise we can get bad results (and it happened before)." Probably we should use gcc 4.4.x for Owl 4.0? Probably even not patch the 2.6.18 kernel and suggest users to upgrade gcc and the kernel at the same time. Or patch the kernel and humble with possible runtime bugs until we upgrade it to RHEL6/OpenVZ, but this more time consuming. What do you think? Thanks, -- Vasiliy
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