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On 2023-11-01 16:44, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 16:10:04 -0400
> Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> 
>> So what is the minimal change required to make things work on your
>> setup? I just tested with a Debian "testing" chroot (with libc 2.37-12)
>> and I cannot reproduce your issue.
>>
>> Should I just submit a patch that removes "#include <asm/byteorder.h>" ?
>> I am really unsure which environments are affected though.
>>
> 
> I guess you can drop it :-p

OK, let's drop this patch then. I may respin the removal of asm/byteorder.h
include as a cleanup in the future, but there is really no hurry.

Thanks,

Mathieu

> 
> When I tried to reproduce it with hand writing 'gcc', I couldn't. But when
> I did:
> 
>   $ make foo
> 
> It gave me the error. I was confused for a bit. Then I looked at what my
> Makefile was doing and what I was doing. The only difference was that the
> make included:
> 
>     -I.
> 
> Removing that from the Makefile worked!
> 
> My Makefile added to the CFLAGS "-I." and I forgot that this directory has
> a "linux/"  directory in it that I used years ago to test kernel functions.
> The git history shows it was last touched in 2016 (when I was still at Red Hat)
> 
> Removing -I. now makes everything work.
> 
> I have no idea why it suddenly stopped working just a few months ago. Maybe
> something was moved out of the gcc headers so my local headers no longer
> see it. That is, perhaps the glibc headers moved something out and added a
> #include to it, where my local headers did not have that change. I don't
> know and I don't care.
> 
> Well, at least now I know why I was getting errors on my build, but
> couldn't find anything on the internet showing why others were not!
> 
> Sorry for the noise. :-/
> 
> -- Steve
> 

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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