Bug#225650: linux-kernel-headers: missing symlink include/asm -> asm-$ARCH causes /usr/include/asm to be used
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:44:17PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:12:42AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:21:11AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > Package: linux-kernel-headers
> > > Version: 2.5.999-test7-bk-10
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > when the package is built, there is no include/asm. This causes
> > > /usr/include/asm to be used during package build, which breaks on
> > > woody. This will probably cause interesting effects when packaging the
> > > next kernel-headers version that has differing include/asm definitions.
> > >
> > > IMO, a symlink include/asm -> asm-$ARCH needs to be generated on
> > > package build, otherwise building the test suite will fail.
> >
> > Please give more details.
>
> I am going to try.
>
> When building the package, the testsuite is built with something along
> the lines of -I../include which points to include/asm in the source
> package "root" directory.
>
> That directory doesn't have an include/asm symlink at this time of
> building, causing "#include <asm/foo>" to pull in /usr/include/asm/foo
> instead of ../include/asm-$ARCH/foo. This is not a problem on sid
> since sid systems _currently_ have a compatible (identical?) file in
> /usr/include, but fails on woody. And it's bound to fail when the
> kernel headers are changed in a way that include/asm will differ.
>
> > I know that changes to asm-i386/ show up in the testsuite results so it
> > works here. Perhaps a different version of debhelper is breaking some
> > assumption?
>
> Probably, since I am talking woody here.
>
> If this doesn't help, I will give more explicit results when I have
> again access to the build host.
The testsuite is built with:
LOCAL_CFLAGS = -I $(shell pwd)/../debian/linux-kernel-headers/usr/include -I $(shell pwd)/../include
If there is no asm dir in ../debian/linux-kernel-headers/usr/include
then the package wasn't built right at all.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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