[gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

[Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>]

I'm currently running a 5.6.10 kernel, compiled with genkernel along  
with an initramfs.  That was compiled with gcc-9.3.0.  Since then,  
using gcc-10.1.0, I have not successfully run genkernel.  Initially it  
was kernel compile failures due to the -fnocommon bug.  With a patch,  
the kernel compile completed fine, and the patch is no longer needed  
for 5.6.16 or 5.7.0.  However, all recent attempts at running genkernel  
fail during creation of initramfs.  (This is genkernel-9999, re-emerged  
yesterday.)

* Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 4.0.7-4-g06acd6f-git
* Using genkernel configuration from '/etc/genkernel.conf' ...
* Running with options: --lvm --firmware --microcode  
--kernel-append-localversion=-gcc-10 all

* Working with Linux kernel 5.7.0-gentoo-x86_64-gcc-10-01 for x86_64
* Using kernel config file  
'/etc/kernels/kernel-config-5.7.0-gentoo-x86_64-gcc-10-01' ...
*
* Note: The version above is subject to change (depends on config and  
status of kernel sources).

* kernel: >> Initializing ...
*         >> Running 'make clean' ...
*         >> --no-mrproper is set; Skipping 'make mrproper' ...
*         >> --no-oldconfig is set; Skipping 'make oldconfig' ...
*         >> Running 'make olddefconfig' due to changed kernel options  
...
*         >> Kernel version has changed (probably due to config change)  
since genkernel start:
*            We are now building Linux kernel  
5.7.0-gentoo-x86_64-gcc-10 for x86_64 ...
*         >> Compiling 5.7.0-gentoo-x86_64-gcc-10 bzImage ...
*         >> Compiling 5.7.0-gentoo-x86_64-gcc-10 modules ...
*         >> Installing 5.7.0-gentoo-x86_64-gcc-10 modules (and  
stripping) ...
*         >> Generating module dependency data ...
*         >> Compiling out-of-tree module(s) ...
*         >> Saving config of successful build to  
'/etc/kernels/kernel-config-5.7.0-gentoo-x86_64-gcc-10' ...

* initramfs: >> Initializing ...
*         >> Appending devices cpio data ...
*         >> Appending base_layout cpio data ...
*         >> Appending auxilary cpio data ...
*         >> Appending busybox cpio data ...
*         >> Appending blkid cpio data ...
*         >> Appending gpg cpio data ...
* ERROR: Command 'nice -n10 make -j8 --load-average 10 V=1' failed!
* ERROR: create_initramfs(): append_data(): append_gpg():  
populate_binpkg(): gkbuild(): Failed to create binpkg of gnupg-1.4.23!

and, of course, I wouldn't really expect gcc-10 to be able to compile  
gnupg-1.4.23.  (The detailed log does show the multiple definition  
errors.)  That version of gnupg  is coded in the ebuild, so hopefully  
there is SOME reason for selecting it.  Also - I now see that I can  
give --no-gpg to genkernel to omit gnupg from the initramfs - that's  
running now.

I'd be surprised if I am really the only one facing this, but I haven't  
found any other reports.  (It's quite possible my search-fu isn't.)  I  
don't know exactly when this started showing up, since I THOUGHT I had  
run genkernel successfully since then, but although there are several  
vmlinuz and sysmap files in /boot, there is only the single initramfs  
which I currently boot with.

Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions.

Jack