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Re: [PATCH]: Fix fs modules on sparc64 build with newer gcc
From: |
David Miller |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH]: Fix fs modules on sparc64 build with newer gcc |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:05:39 -0700 (PDT) |
From: Pavel Roskin <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:19:42 -0400
> On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 00:58 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
>> > Actually, changes to configure.ac affect other users as well. Users of
>> > other architectures would have to run those checks.
>>
>> And what kind of problems would that cause? The symbols would
>> not be found, the test wouldn't pass, and other platforms don't
>> use the resulting config.h defines as well. Only the sparc64
>> build uses this stuff.
>
> The only problem that it will slow down the configure script.
This is not a serious issue. The configure run is very compact
and efficient and my changes aren't going to materially change
this in any way whatsoever.
> By the way, the checks for those functions should be done with the
> target compiler, that is after the second occurrence of CC="$TARGET_CC"
> in configure.ac.
Sure, I can fix that.