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From: Nathan_Lynch@mentor•com (Nathan Lynch)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: build failure with VDSO on non-glibc based systems
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:16:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5589783F.6040605@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55893659.80607@arm.com>

On 06/23/2015 05:35 AM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> if the host toolchain is not glibc based then the arm kernel build fails with
> 
>  arch/arm/vdso/vdsomunge.c:53:19: fatal error: error.h: No such file or directory
> 
> error.h is a glibc only header (ie not available in musl, newlib and bsd libcs).

Thanks for the report and the patch.  I agree it is inappropriate to
unnecessarily depend on glibc features in host programs.


> i attached a patch that fixes the build failure for me.

A few issues with the patch prevent me from accepting it as-is.

The patch lacks the required Signed-off-by: line; see part 11 in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches.

The body of your email would suffice as the commit log; please include
it in the patch itself.


>  
> +#define fail(...) ( \
> +	failed = 1, \
> +	fprintf(stderr, "%s: ", argv0), \
> +	fprintf(stderr, __VA_ARGS__), \
> +	exit(EXIT_FAILURE))
> +

It would be more in keeping with Linux coding style to write this as a
do { ... } while (0) block (Chapter 12 of Documentation/CodingStyle).

Writing it as a function, if possible, would be best.

Please attend to these issues and resubmit.  Alternatively, I have a
musl installation I can test with and develop an equivalent fix
(crediting you with the initial report, of course).

      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-23 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-23 10:35 build failure with VDSO on non-glibc based systems Szabolcs Nagy
2015-06-23 15:16 ` Nathan Lynch [this message]

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