Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755823Ab1EESeU (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2011 14:34:20 -0400 Received: from 75.98.165.80.static.a2webhosting.com ([75.98.165.80]:58319 "EHLO greenroomsoftware.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755667Ab1EESeT (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2011 14:34:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4DC2ED9F.5080601@greenroomsoftware.com> Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 11:34:07 -0700 From: Robert Gordon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nuno Subtil CC: maximilian attems , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] deb-pkg: fix cross-compile build References: <1304488750-13606-1-git-send-email-subtil@gmail.com> <20110504204807.GB13293@sepie.suse.cz> <20110505090728.GC30678@vostochny.stro.at> <4DC2C568.9090803@greenroomsoftware.com> <4DC2EB2B.1050203@greenroomsoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <4DC2EB2B.1050203@greenroomsoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - a2s60.a2hosting.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - greenroomsoftware.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3531 Lines: 95 On 5/5/11 11:23 AM, Robert Gordon wrote: > On 5/5/11 10:10 AM, Nuno Subtil wrote: >> This patch is not meant to fix that case, only the case where >> KBUILD_DEBARCH is used. >> >> KBUILD_DEBARCH seems to be meant to be used as an override for what >> Debian wants to see as the target architecture. Arguably, the right >> thing to do here might be to do the same arch detection sequence >> that's done in create_package(), which looks at UTS_MACHINE first and >> the KBUILD_DEBARCH override after that (though I'm not entirely sure). >> >> This patch only adds the KBUILD_DEBARCH override, but that is still >> better than the current situation. I can easily get the rest in later >> if needed. >> >> Nuno >> >> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 08:42, Robert Gordon >> wrote: >>> On 05/05/2011 02:07 AM, maximilian attems wrote: >>>> On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:48:07PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: >>>>> Adding Maks to CC. >>>> thanks, this one looks, good please disguard the other patch. >>>> >>>>> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:59:10PM -0700, Nuno Subtil wrote: >>>>>> When generating the header package, scripts/package/builddeb was >>>>>> inferring the >>>>>> target architecture by looking at the output of dpkg >>>>>> --print-architecture. This >>>>>> allows KBUILD_DEBARCH to override that. >>>>>> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Nuno Subtil >>>> Acked-by: maximilian attems >>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe >>>> linux-kbuild" in >>>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>> Greetings, >>> >>> Compile breaks when using the following command: >>> fakeroot make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- deb-pkg >>> >>> With 'set -x' in scripts/package/builddeb, the relevant output is: >>> + '[' -n '' ']' >>> ++ dpkg --print-architecture >>> + arch=i386 >>> This indicates that KBUILD_DEBARCH is not set. >>> >>> The debian/control file is written with the following section: >>> Package: linux-headers-2.6.39-rc5+ >>> Provides: linux-headers, linux-headers-2.6 >>> Architecture: i386 >>> Description: Linux kernel headers for 2.6.39-rc5+ on i386 >>> This package provides kernel header files for 2.6.39-rc5+ on i386 >>> >>> This produces the following error output: >>> + forcearch=-DArchitecture=armel >>> + dpkg-gencontrol -isp -DArchitecture=armel >>> -plinux-headers-2.6.39-rc5+ -P/opt/kernel-linus/linux-2.6/debian/hdrtmp >>> dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'armel' does not >>> appear in package's architecture list (i386) >>> >>> Regards, >>> Robert >>> >>> > Nuno, > Thanks for the response. I am very new at this process, but I am trying > to learn. Yesterday, I submitted a patch that was intended to address > the same issue that you have addressed. I did what you are suggesting by > mimicking what is done in create_package(), but leaving i386/x86_64 > untouched. Here is the subject of the patch I sent: > > [PATCH] kbuild, deb-pkg: set host machine $arch correctly when > cross-compiling or not > > Please advise if I should resend. > > Regards, > Robert > > -- * > * > Apologies, resending because messages were rejected by the mailing lists (probably due to html) - Robert -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/