Bug#953796: gcc-9: kernel compilation fails

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Package: gcc-9
Version: 9.3.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Debian GCC Maintainer,

trying to compile an upstream stable kernel 5.5.8 fails with the
following error output:


$ make -j8
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/confdata.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/expr.o
  LEX     scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c
  YACC    scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.[ch]
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/preprocess.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/symbol.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/util.o
In file included from scripts/kconfig/conf.c:7:
/usr/include/limits.h:124:26: error: no include path in which to search for limits.h
  124 | # include_next <limits.h>
      |                          ^
In file included from scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:11:
/usr/include/limits.h:124:26: error: no include path in which to search for limits.h
  124 | # include_next <limits.h>
      |                          ^
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:124: scripts/kconfig/conf.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:124: scripts/kconfig/confdata.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:568: syncconfig] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:678: include/config/auto.conf.cmd] Error 2
make: *** [include/config/auto.conf.cmd] Deleting file
'include/config/tristate.conf'


Compiling with gcc-9 version 9.2.1-30 works.
Any idea?

Best regards,
Jörg.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.5.8 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages gcc-9 depends on:
ii  binutils      2.34-4
ii  cpp-9         9.3.0-1
ii  gcc-9-base    9.3.0-1
ii  libc6         2.30-2
ii  libcc1-0      10-20200304-1
ii  libgcc-9-dev  9.3.0-1
ii  libgcc-s1     10-20200304-1
ii  libgmp10      2:6.2.0+dfsg-4
ii  libisl22      0.22.1-1
ii  libmpc3       1.1.0-1
ii  libmpfr6      4.0.2-1
ii  libstdc++6    10-20200304-1
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

Versions of packages gcc-9 recommends:
ii  libc6-dev  2.30-2

Versions of packages gcc-9 suggests:
ii  gcc-9-doc       9.2.0-2
pn  gcc-9-locales   <none>
pn  gcc-9-multilib  <none>

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