Messages in this thread | | | From | Blaisorblade <> | Subject | Re: More uml build failures on 2.16.19-rc3 and 2.6.18.1 | Date | Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:57:58 +0100 |
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On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:21, Mitch wrote: > Hi Jeff, all, > > Sorry for the dealy but i've been out of the country. > > Anyhow i did some investigation and i've figured out the bug. > > Essentially if you try to compile a UML kernel on a 2.6.18.1 or above > *host* kernel
> it will fail with the error messages shown (essentially > offsetof macro undefined) because between 2.6.18 and 2.6.18.1 that macro > in /usr/include/linux/stddef.h is now wrapped in a #ifdef __KERNEL__ . > However since UML doesn't build it's sources with that defined we get an > undefined macro and a build failure.
Ok, we have one bug and one mistake on your part: 1) we should include <stddef.h> instead of <linux/stddef.h> in files using host headers (I don't have the error message at hand, so please handle this yourself, Jeff) 2) /usr/include/{linux,asm} being symlinks inside /usr/src/linux/include is an unsupported configuration since ages. #1 is still a valid bug because when a distribution will distribute glibc and kernheaders based on 2.6.18.1+/2.6.19 ones we'll break anyway.
> So i'm partly right and partly wrong in my statement below. Yes i did > compile a guest UML kernel 2.6.18 fine on host kernel of 2.6.18, and i > believe i will be able to compile 2.6.18.1 and above also on a host > kernel of 2.6.18 but if i change my host kernel to 2.6.18.1 or above all > UML guest builds will fail. > > Can someone confirm they can build guest UML kernels on a host kernel >= > 2.6.18.1 ?? > > Thanks > M
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