Question on Bug #1749261 - Won't fix

Have you tried installing the package gcc-4.8 before compiling?

Thank you Manfred for your reply. I just tried installing gcc-4.8. Didn't know if it would supply something that would help gcc-7.4. So I tried both 7.4 and 4.8.

Compiling with gcc-7.4 with installed gcc-4.8 I get the same:

make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64'
arch/x86/Makefile:96: stack-protector enabled but compiler support broken
arch/x86/Makefile:166: *** CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y, but not supported by the compiler. Compiler update recommended.. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64'
Makefile:56: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Compiling with just gcc-4.8 is below. It seems that gcc-4.8 has an unsupported option which is by default add when compiling a module for this kernel. Can you suggest anything else that we can try to get around this? Will any gcc supplied by bionic support 'stack-protector' and 'CONFIG_RETPOLINE'?. Thanks again for your help ... Jose

Makefile:648: Cannot use CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG: -fstack-protector-strong not supported by compiler
  .....
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-fstack-protector-strong'
scripts/Makefile.build:341: recipe for target '....o' failed
make[2]: *** [...o] Error 1
Makefile:1312: recipe for target '_module_...' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_...] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64'
Makefile:56: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

gcc packages I currently have installed:

# dpkg -l | egrep gcc
ii gcc 4:7.4.0-1ubuntu2.3 amd64 GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.8 4.8.5-4ubuntu8 amd64 GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.8-base:amd64 4.8.5-4ubuntu8 amd64 GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
ii gcc-7 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GNU C compiler
ii gcc-7-base:amd64 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
ii gcc-8 8.3.0-6ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GNU C compiler
ii gcc-8-base:amd64 8.3.0-6ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
ii gccgo 4:8.3.0-1ubuntu2.3 amd64 Go compiler, based on the GCC backend
ii gccgo-8 8.3.0-6ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GNU Go compiler
ii libgcc-4.8-dev:amd64 4.8.5-4ubuntu8 amd64 GCC support library (development files)
ii libgcc-7-dev:amd64 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GCC support library (development files)
ii libgcc-8-dev:amd64 8.3.0-6ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GCC support library (development files)
ii libgcc1:amd64 1:8.3.0-6ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GCC support library

Also tried installing gcc-5 and ran into the same error which we got when we use gcc-7.4...

What is the output of
gcc --version

Maybe you have to specify a different compiler by invoking the build command with
make CC=gcc-8
or something similar.

I have been updating the /usr/bin/gcc link to move the version. The last update I did was for gcc-5 so the version was :
# gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 5.5.0-12ubuntu1) 5.5.0 20171010
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

I just tried this:

# cd /usr/bin && rm gcc && ln -s gcc-8 gcc && cd -
# gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 8.3.0-6ubuntu1~18.04.1) 8.3.0
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

# KERNELPATH=/usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r) make
make -C /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64 M=... modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64'
arch/x86/Makefile:96: stack-protector enabled but compiler support broken
arch/x86/Makefile:166: *** CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y, but not supported by the compiler. Compiler update recommended.. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64'
Makefile:56: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

So I am using the gcc-8 compiler in this case. This used to work under Xenial gcc-5. Was there a change to gcc for Bionic? Any help around this is appreciated. Thank you again ... Jose

What is the output of the command

uname -a

The 3.10 version of the kernel was never supported on Ubuntu 16.04 (only on 13.10, saucy, already end of life for years)

We are using an Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS docker container running on a host with OS distro 'CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804'. We are attempting to compile a kernel module using the host installed kernel-devel source in /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64 via the "Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS docker container". We were doing this previously using Xenial 16.04 and it worked ok. We wanted to upgrade to Bionic to better support for tracing tools that we use.

The uname -a of the host is "Linux centos-75-test 3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 21 23:36:36 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux".

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Hello I was hoping to still get an answer for this if possible. I keep monitoring the ubuntu install for any updates to gcc. In hopes that an update might help with this issue and have not seen anything yet.

This works with latest Xenial installs however we were hoping to move up to 18.04. Any information which could help us get around this issue woukd be appreciated. Thanks again ... Jose

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