Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the vfs tree

From: David Howells
Date: Wed Sep 19 2018 - 02:01:08 EST


Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I think the problem is that I haven't allocated system call numbers for
> > any arches other than x86 - even the x86 syscall numbers are provisional
> > until the patchset is taken upstream. I'm not sure of the best way to
> > deal with this - make the samples dependent on the X86 arch?
>
> But the sample programs are built with HOSTCC, so you can't depend on
> ARCH (since I, for one, am cross compiling). Maybe SUBARCH. Better
> would be to use either Kconfig's shell primitive or some make magic to
> figure out if the syscall number define's are defined.

I meant put the dependency in the Kconfig.

David