Bug#392592: linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley: ia64 misses some scripts when building external modules

[Brice <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Package: linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley
Version: 2.6.18-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

When trying to compile external modules on Debian's 2.6.18 kernel (and
.17 too, and maybe others) on IA64/McKinley ItaniumII, the Makefile in
arch/ia64/ misses some scripts:

    make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley/ M=$PWD
    /bin/sh: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley/arch/ia64/scripts/toolchain-flags: No such file or directory
    /bin/sh: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley/arch/ia64/scripts/check-gas: No such file or directory
    make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley'
      CC [M]  /home/bgoglin/test/test.o
    [...]

The "script/" link in the 2.6.18-1-mckinley's headers looks fine:
    /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley/arch/ia64/scripts
        -> ../../../linux-headers-2.6.18-1/arch/ia64/scripts
But the destination does not exists in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-1/arch/ia64/.

toolchain-flags is used by arch/ia64/Makefile to define CPPFLAGS, which
looks pretty important to me. check-gas checks whether gas is recent
enough, which looks pretty important too. I tried to copy those missing
scripts from the kernel source into linux-headers-2.6.18-1/arch/ia64/scripts,
but I get some other warnings then:

    make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley/ M=$PWD
    gcc-4.1: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley/arch/ia64/scripts/check-segrel.S: No such file or directory
    objdump: '/tmp/out19575': No such file
    /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley/arch/ia64/scripts/toolchain-flags: line 19: [: !=: unary operator expected
    gcc-4.1: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley/arch/ia64/scripts/check-text-align.S: No such file or directory
    gcc-4.1: no input files
    readelf: Error: '/tmp/out19575': No such file
    gcc-4.1: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley/arch/ia64/scripts/check-gas-asm.S: No such file or directorygcc-4.1: no input files
    objdump: '/tmp/out19593.o': No such file
    /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley/arch/ia64/scripts/check-gas: line 10: [: !=: unary operator expected

Copying the entire arch/ia64/scripts/ directory from a source tree seems
to fix all the issues. So I guess one package should bring this directory,
either linux-headers or the linux-kbuild.

Thanks,
Brice


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: ia64
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-mckinley
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley depends on:
ii  gcc-4.1                       4.1.1-13   The GNU C compiler
ii  linux-headers-2.6.18-1        2.6.18-2   Common header files for Linux 2.6.
ii  linux-kbuild-2.6.18           2.6.18-1   Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2.

linux-headers-2.6.18-1-mckinley recommends no packages.

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