Bug#648996: linux-2.6: FTBFS [m68k] in modpost: "strlen" [iscsi_target_mod.ko] undefined! (and others)

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:42:41PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Ben Hutchings dixit:
> 
> >But there are no warnings in the log for use of these functions
> >without declarations.  So if <linux/string.h> is not included
> >already (indirectly), where are they declared?  I don't believe
> 
> I fear they might be correct and gcc replaces certain function
> calls with others, or – worse – replaces certain “expanded” code
> with function calls, AGAIN. I’ve seen this behaviour in my other
> kernel code sometimes and build with -ffreestanding (but does that
> guarantee this won’t happen?) to maybe fix that.
> 
> Since the Linux Kernel build system is terminally broken¹, I don’t
> even know whether it uses -ffreestanding, all I see is “CC”…
> 
> bye,
> //mirabilos
> ① unless you pass V=1 or something (can never seem to recall which
>   of these applies to which of the broken build system set), but I
>   can’t really do that without changing the source package, which,
>   in turn, I don’t do if I want to produce standard, reproducible,
>   Debian packages ready for uploading to the archive, as close to
>   the rules for main as possible.
 
Try KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 dpkg-buildpackage ...

And hiding command lines by default is not broken; it makes it a hell
of a lot easier to actually see warnings.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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                                                              - Albert Camus