Re: [uml-devel] Re: uml-patch-2.5.42-1

[Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>]

Oleg Drokin [green@namesys.com] wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 08:52:17AM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
> 
> > > For some reason I now need this patch to make bk-current to compile 
> > That patch is against stock 2.5.42, so I don't make any guarantees about
> > bk-current.

I was seeing the same failure on 2.5.42.

> 
> I am in no way inplying that you are making any guarantees about your patches to
> work with something but the kernels they are released for.
> On the other hand I thought you might find it useful if I report to you
> problems with more modern kernels that I encounter so that when you will
> update UML to never kernel you do not need to hit all the problems by yourself.
> 
> > However the __i386__ thing should be taken care of by Makefile-i386 doing
> > 	CFLAGS += -U__i386__
> > I might have messed up the patch, I'll check and fix it if so.
> 
> Yes, it seems to be the case.
> 
> CFLAGS is defined first in arch/um/Makefile and only then you do
> include Makefile-{SUBARCH}
> 
> Moving 'include $(ARCH_DIR)/Makefile-$(SUBARCH)' in front of CFLAGS
> helped.

This fixed the __i386__ issue, but messed up the header symlinks. I
moved CFLAGS after the includes and this appears to have fixed both
problems, but makefile magic is not my thing so YMMV.

-andmike
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Michael Anderson
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