Re: [PATCH 00/15] kbuild: refactor headers_install and support compile-test of UAPI headers

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 7:15 PM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Multiple people have suggested to compile-test UAPI headers.
>
> Currently, Kbuild provides simple sanity checks by headers_check
> but they are not enough to catch bugs.
>
> The most recent patch I know is David Howells' work:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10590203/
>
> I agree that we need better tests for UAPI headers,
> but I want to integrate it in a clean way.
>
> The idea that has been in my mind is to compile each header
> to make sure the selfcontainedness.


For convenience, I pushed this series at

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git
uapi-header-test-v1

(13/15 was replaced with v2)


If you want to test it quickly, please check-out it, then

  $ make -j8 allmodconfig usr/

(As I noted in the commit log, you need to use
a compiler that provides <stdlib.h>, <sys/time.h>, etc.)


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada