Re: CVS commit: src/sys/compat/common

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 10:48:33 +0100
Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost> wrote:

> >> Modified Files:
> >> 	src/sys/compat/common: Makefile.inc
> >>
> >> Log Message:
> >> Build libcompat as an object, not as a library. We want all of its
> >> functions compiled in, because compat modules loaded from the filesystem
> >> may depend on them.  
> > 
> > this breaks mips64 kernels:
> > 
> > /var/obj/evbmips-mips64eb/usr/src/tooldir.NetBSD-7.1_STABLE-amd64/bin/mips64--netbsd-ld: kern_ipc_10.o: ABI is incompatible with that of the selected emulation
> > /var/obj/evbmips-mips64eb/usr/src/tooldir.NetBSD-7.1_STABLE-amd64/bin/mips64--netbsd-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file kern_ipc_10.o
> > /var/obj/evbmips-mips64eb/usr/src/tooldir.NetBSD-7.1_STABLE-amd64/bin/mips64--netbsd-ld: sysv_shm_50.o: ABI is incompatible with that of the selected emulation
> > /var/obj/evbmips-mips64eb/usr/src/tooldir.NetBSD-7.1_STABLE-amd64/bin/mips64--netbsd-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file sysv_shm_50.o
> > [ ... ]  
> 
> Do you know where exactly this comes from? In kern_ipc_10.c nothing should be
> built since mips64 is _LP64.

Not necessarily - it's perfectly reasonable to build kernels as n32
( read: ILP32 but with 64bit registers and such ) on certain hardware.

have fun
Michael