Re: tools: Consolidate types.h

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 07:30:35PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 05/06, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 06:54:00PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I can't build the kernel after "git pull",
> >
> > You mean, you can't build perf tool...?
> 
> No, make bzImage fails, it can't compile arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c

Wow, so this commit is a year old and this is the first time I see a it
causing a failure. You must have a really ooold distro :-)

> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
> > > index 275a3a8..e970320 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
> > > @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso.lds = -m64 -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
> > >  $(obj)/vdso64.so.dbg: $(src)/vdso.lds $(vobjs) FORCE
> > >  	$(call if_changed,vdso)
> > >
> > > -HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/include -I$(srctree)/include/uapi
> > > +HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/include -I$(srctree)/include/uapi -I$(srctree)/arch/x86/include/uapi
> >
> > Do you have kernel-headers installed on your distro?
> 
> I have no idea ;) but I guess they were installed. many years ago.
> 
> > That's
> > basically those uapi headers packaged separately. There's also "make
> > headers_install" which should probably do that (haven't tried it
> > though).
> 
> Perhaps. but still, if HOST_EXTRACFLAGS has -I$(srctree)/include/uapi, why
> it doesn't add arch/x86/include/uapi? This doesn't look consistent in any
> case.

Yeah, I guess it wouldn't hurt. Andy, see quoted hunk above ^^.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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