Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix link to headers in 'make deb-pkg'

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

On 31.1.2012 12:05, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> any news on this?

I know nothing about deb packaging, so I was hoping Max would comment.
But I'll try the patch myself later this week (I'm quite busy atm).

Michal
> 
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 05:17:20PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
>> (adding max to CC)
>>
>> On 23.1.2012 12:40, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>>> The Link to the kernel header files in the debian packages
>>> point to the original build directory. This is a bad choice
>>> if the packages were installed on a different machine. Fix
>>> this in by manually re-creating the link in the builddeb
>>> script.
>>> With this patch applied the lib/modules/$version dir always
>>> exists, so move the "$ARCH = um" check out of the modules
>>> check too.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
>>> ---
>>>  scripts/package/builddeb |   13 +++++++++----
>>>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
>>> index f6cbc3d..46f63dc 100644
>>> --- a/scripts/package/builddeb
>>> +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
>>> @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ fi
>>>  rm -rf "$tmpdir" "$fwdir" "$kernel_headers_dir" "$libc_headers_dir"
>>>  mkdir -m 755 -p "$tmpdir/DEBIAN"
>>>  mkdir -p  "$tmpdir/lib" "$tmpdir/boot" "$tmpdir/usr/share/doc/$packagename"
>>> +mkdir -p  "$tmpdir/lib/modules/$version"
>>>  mkdir -m 755 -p "$fwdir/DEBIAN"
>>>  mkdir -p "$fwdir/lib" "$fwdir/usr/share/doc/$fwpackagename"
>>>  mkdir -m 755 -p "$libc_headers_dir/DEBIAN"
>>> @@ -121,10 +122,14 @@ fi
>>>  
>>>  if grep -q '^CONFIG_MODULES=y' .config ; then
>>>  	INSTALL_MOD_PATH="$tmpdir" make KBUILD_SRC= modules_install
>>> -	if [ "$ARCH" = "um" ] ; then
>>> -		mv "$tmpdir/lib/modules/$version"/* "$tmpdir/usr/lib/uml/modules/$version/"
>>> -		rmdir "$tmpdir/lib/modules/$version"
>>> -	fi
>>> +fi
>>> +
>>> +# Make sure link to the headers is correct
>>> +ln -snf "/usr/src/$kernel_headers_packagename" "$tmpdir/lib/modules/$version/build"
>>> +
>>> +if [ "$ARCH" = "um" ] ; then
>>> +	mv "$tmpdir/lib/modules/$version"/* "$tmpdir/usr/lib/uml/modules/$version/"
>>> +	rmdir "$tmpdir/lib/modules/$version"
>>>  fi
>>>  
>>>  make headers_check
>>
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