Thread (25 messages) 25 messages, 4 authors, 2026-02-20

Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] kbuild: don't enable CC_CAN_LINK if the dummy program generates warnings

From: Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
Date: 2025-11-14 13:43:28
Also in: linux-kbuild, linux-mips, linux-riscv, linux-s390, lkml, sparclinux

On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 09:27:41PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 03:05:16PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
quoted
It is possible that the kernel toolchain generates warnings when used
together with the system toolchain. This happens for example when the
older kernel toolchain does not handle new versions of sframe debug
information. While these warnings where ignored during the evaluation
of CC_CAN_LINK, together with CONFIG_WERROR the actual userprog build
will later fail.

Example warning:

.../x86_64-linux/13.2.0/../../../../x86_64-linux/bin/ld:
error in /lib/../lib64/crt1.o(.sframe); no .sframe will be created
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Make sure that the very simple example program does not generate
warnings already to avoid breaking the userprog compilations.

Fixes: ec4a3992bc0b ("kbuild: respect CONFIG_WERROR for linker and assembler")
Fixes: 3f0ff4cc6ffb ("kbuild: respect CONFIG_WERROR for userprogs")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Thanks!
While this makes sense as a way to immediately fix the problem and align
cc-can-link.sh with the other test functions like cc-option and like, it
is rather unfortunate that this particular warning causes an error since
the rest of the userprogs infrastructure does not care about SFrame...
I wonder if there is a way to avoid it since I think this warning does
not point to a fundamental problem.
I did not find any way to avoid this specific warning, unfortunately.
This patch should make sense in any case. If we find a way to avoid the
sframe warning then that should go on top.

(...)


Thomas
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