linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree

Stephen Rothwell
2016-03-01T01:29:15Z

Hi all,

After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
failed like this:

DESCEND objtool
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/builtin-check.o
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/special.o
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/elf.o
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/objtool.o
MKDIR /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/libstring.o
elf.c:22:23: fatal error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/exec-cmd.o
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/help.o
builtin-check.c:28:20: fatal error: string.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
objtool.c:28:19: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

and further errors ...

This build is done with a PowerPC hosted cross compiler with no glibc.
I assume that some things here need to be built with HOSTCC?

Presumably caused by commit

9e54249679b4 ("Merge branch 'core/objtool'")

and the commit series that was merged.

I tried to revert that merge, but it had conflicts, so I just used the
tip tree from next-20160229 for today.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell