Compile errors on kernel source from ppc.samba.org::linux-pmac-stable

Compile errors on kernel source from ppc.samba.org::linux-pmac-stable

[Robert M. Fuhrer]

I rsync'ed twice from ppc.samba.org, and although it clearly got many
files (the first time around), the source wouldn't compile.  The first of
many batches of errors cropped up in

  drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c

which sees no definition of the type 'elevator_t', as well as a few other
"elevator"-related types.

Granted, I rsync'ed on top of an existing 2.2.15pre9 source tree, but I
gave rsync the "--delete" and "-u" flags, which I thought should have
given me a fairly clean and up-to-date tree.  No?

The precise rsync cmd I used was

  rsync -avuz ppc.samba.org::linux-pmac-stable .

If my rsync cmd was ok, am I wrong in expecting the linux-pmac-stable
tree to compile cleanly?

Or, failing all of the above, what's wrong?

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Re: Compile errors on kernel source from ppc.samba.org::linux-pmac-stable

[Paul Mackerras]

Robert M. Fuhrer writes:

> I rsync'ed twice from ppc.samba.org, and although it clearly got many
> files (the first time around), the source wouldn't compile.  The first of
> many batches of errors cropped up in
>
>   drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
>
> which sees no definition of the type 'elevator_t', as well as a few other
> "elevator"-related types.
>
> Granted, I rsync'ed on top of an existing 2.2.15pre9 source tree, but I
> gave rsync the "--delete" and "-u" flags, which I thought should have
> given me a fairly clean and up-to-date tree.  No?

Do it without -u.  What happens is that the linux Makefiles touch the
header files.  If a.h includes b.h and b.h is newer than a.h, make
will touch a.h so that anything that includes a.h will get
recompiled.  This means that if you have compiled in the tree recently
your local copy of a.h could well have a newer date than the a.h in
the rsync tree, even if the a.h in the rsync tree is actually a more
up-to-date version.

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