Re: kbuild/all archs: Sanitize creating offsets.h

Russell King
2004-10-28T19:49:08Z

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:59:18PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> When creating offsets.h from arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile we failed to check
> all dependencies. A few key dependencies were listed - but a manually
> edited list of include files are bound to be incomplete.
> A few times I have tried building a kernel - which failed because
> offsets.h needed to be updated but kbuild failed to do so.
> I wonder what could happen with a kernel with an out-dated offsets.h
> file with wrong assembler constants.

This fails:

rmk@dyn-67:[linux-2.6-rmk]:<1041> amake O=../build/rpc
Using /home/rmk/bk/linux-2.6-rmk as source for kernel
GEN /home/rmk/bk/build/rpc/Makefile
CHK include/linux/version.h
UPD include/linux/version.h
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/basic/split-include
HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc
GEN /home/rmk/bk/build/rpc/Makefile
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c
HOSTCC -fPIC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
HOSTLLD -shared scripts/kconfig/libkconfig.so
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/arm/Kconfig
#
# using defaults found in .config
#
SPLIT include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
/home/rmk/bk/linux-2.6-rmk/scripts/Makefile.build:13: /home/rmk/bk/linux-2.6-rmk/include/asm/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/home/rmk/bk/linux-2.6-rmk/include/asm/Makefile'. Stop.
make[1]: *** [prepare0] Error 2
make: *** [_all] Error 2

../build/rpc only contained .version and .config

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Russell King
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