On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 05:05:34PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:

Segher Boessenkool [off-list ref] writes:

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Yes, that is why I used the environment variable, all binutils work
with that.  There was no --target option in GNU ar before 2.22.

Yeah, we're not very good at testing with really old binutils, so I
guess we broke that.

I'm inclined to merge this, it doesn't seem to break anything, and it
fixes using --target on old binutils that don't have it.

But we don't set the target any other way either.  I don't think this
will work with a 32-bit toolchain (default target 32 bit) and a 64-bit
kernel, or the other way around.

Then again, does that work at *all* nowadays?  Do we even consider that
important, *should* it work?


Segher