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Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew) wrote : Unable to build libghugetlbfs test on 4.15 KVM

When trying to build the libhugetlbfs test on KVM instance gummo, which is running the 4.15.0-1003-kvm kernel, it will fail with:
  CC32 obj32/linkhuge_nofd.o
  LD32 (hugelink test) obj32/linkhuge_nofd
  CC32 obj32/linkshare.o
  LD32 (hugelink test) obj32/linkshare
  LD32 (xB test) obj32/xB.linkhuge
    /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: unrecognized option '--hugetlbfs-link=B'
    /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: use the --help option for usage information
    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
    Makefile:227: recipe for target 'obj32/xB.linkhuge' failed
    make[1]: *** [obj32/xB.linkhuge] Error 1
    Makefile:242: recipe for target 'tests/all' failed
    make: *** [tests/all] Error 2

Steps:
  1. git clone --depth=1 -b next https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs.git
  2. cd libhugetlbfs
  3. make

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: linux-image-4.15.0-1003-kvm 4.15.0-1003.3
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 4.15.0-1003.3-kvm 4.15.10
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-1003-kvm x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 19 04:44:08 2018
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: linux-kvm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)