Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32 make header check fails

Andrew Morton
2007-11-07T21:56:59Z

> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:12:40 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> The build fails with error
>
> CHECK include/asm-generic/siginfo.h
> CHECK include/asm-generic/resource.h
> CHECK include/asm-generic/statfs.h
> CHECK include/asm-generic/signal.h
> CHECK include/asm-generic/poll.h
> CHECK include/asm-generic/mman.h
> CHECK include/asm-generic/ioctl.h
> CHECK include/asm-generic/fcntl.h
> CHECK include/asm-generic/errno.h
> CHECK include/asm-generic/errno-base.h
> CHECK include/asm/cputable.h
> CHECK include/asm/byteorder.h
> CHECK include/asm/bootx.h
> CHECK include/asm/auxvec.h
> CHECK include/asm/asm-compat.h
> CHECK include/asm/a.out.h
> CHECK include/asm/ucontext.h
> CHECK include/asm/ps3fb.h
> CHECK include/asm/linkage.h
> CHECK include/asm/elf.h
> /home/test/kernels/linux-2.6.24-rc1/patches/linux-2.6.24-rc1/usr/include/asm/elf.h requires asm/page.h, which does not exist in exported headers
> make[3]: *** [/home/test/kernels/linux-2.6.24-rc1/patches/linux-2.6.24-rc1/usr/include/asm/.check.elf.h] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [asm-powerpc] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [headers_check] Error 2
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2
>

I am going to guess that you're building for powerpc here.

It looks like ia64 broke too. I'll drop the patch, thanks.