From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52362 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756731Ab1H3VDc (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:03:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4E5D501D.9000604@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:03:25 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Generating unistd_*.h References: <4E583860.5080603@zytor.com> <20110827101820.GA2990@merkur.ravnborg.org> <4E58D99A.2050400@zytor.com> <4E5D4528.1070307@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4E5D4528.1070307@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org On 08/30/2011 01:16 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 08/27/2011 04:48 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 08/27/2011 03:18 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >>>> >>>> 1. Is there a better place than others to put these generated files >>>> (i.e. other than $(obj)/arch/x86/include/asm)? >>> $(obj)/arch/x86/include/generated >>> >>> This is what generic-y supports uses. >>> > > OK, got things mostly working, but I'm a bit stuck on how to make > headers-install do the right thing. objhdr-y doesn't seem to deal with > the generated subdirectory very well, and we don't really want the files > *installed* into the generated subdirectory for user space. > > Any suggestions for how to best handle it? > For reference, putting the following in arch/x86/include/asm/Kbuild does *not* work, because $(objtree)/arch/x86/include/asm doesn't exist, and so Kbuild generates an invalid path: objhdr-y += ../generated/asm/unistd_32.h objhdr-y += ../generated/asm/unistd_64.h -hpa