Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm/msg08012.html
3 To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@xxxxxxxxxx>
4 Subject: Re: Kernel Compile Error: use of old and new-style options to set FPU type
5 From: Marc Britten <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
6 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:03:15 -0400
7 Cc: linux-arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
8 In-reply-to: <1525495613.20040615202902@andric.com>
13 >>Error: use of old and new-style options to set FPU type
14 > Try removing -Wa,-mno-fpu from CFLAGS (and possibly AFLAGS, but I'm
15 > not sure, depends on what your compiler generates by default) in
18 Just to let people know, this was successful.
29 make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/mod
30 /opt/crosstool/arm-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.3/bin/arm-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,scripts/mod/.empty.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mapcs -mno-sched-prolog -mlittle-endian -mapcs-32 -malignment-traps -msoft-float -Wa,-mno-fpu -Uarm -Os -Wdeclaration-after-statement -DKBUILD_BASENAME=empty -DKBUILD_MODNAME=empty -c -o scripts/mod/empty.o scripts/mod/empty.c
32 Error: use of old and new-style options to set FPU type
33 make[2]: *** [scripts/mod/empty.o] Error 1
34 make[1]: *** [scripts/mod] Error 2
35 make: *** [scripts] Error 2
38 --- linux-2.6.8/arch/arm/Makefile.old 2004-09-01 21:27:07.000000000 -0700
39 +++ linux-2.6.8/arch/arm/Makefile 2004-09-01 21:27:31.000000000 -0700
41 tune-$(CONFIG_CPU_V6) :=-mtune=strongarm
43 # Need -Uarm for gcc < 3.x
44 -CFLAGS +=-mapcs-32 $(arch-y) $(tune-y) $(call check_gcc,-malignment-traps,-mshort-load-bytes) -msoft-float -Wa,-mno-fpu -Uarm
45 -AFLAGS +=-mapcs-32 $(arch-y) $(tune-y) -msoft-float -Wa,-mno-fpu
46 +CFLAGS +=-mapcs-32 $(arch-y) $(tune-y) $(call check_gcc,-malignment-traps,-mshort-load-bytes) -msoft-float -Uarm
47 +AFLAGS +=-mapcs-32 $(arch-y) $(tune-y) -msoft-float
49 CHECK := $(CHECK) -D__arm__=1