fixdep ought to be compiled with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Thu Aug 29 2013 - 06:04:52 EST



Because fixdep is compiled without -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64,
a 32-bit fixdep (in a chroot build root, for example) may fail to run
on a 64-bit host system if any file has an inode larger than 2^32,
which can easily happen (in my case, on xfs):


[ares07:~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-obj]
$ make silentoldconfig -C $PWD/../linux-3.10 O=$PWD V=1

make: Entering directory `/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-3.10'
make -C /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-obj \
KBUILD_SRC=/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-3.10 \
KBUILD_EXTMOD="" -f /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-3.10/Makefile \
silentoldconfig
make -f /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-3.10/scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic
gcc -Wp,-MD,scripts/basic/.fixdep.d -Iscripts/basic -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/basic/fixdep /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-3.10/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
fixdep: error fstat'ing depfile: scripts/basic/.fixdep.d: Value too large for defined data type
make[2]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 2
make[1]: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-3.10'
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