[ adding John to CC ] On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Seth Jennings wrote: > One or more in the following commit set in the 3.18 merge window is causing > build failure on ppc64 with the default config: > > 7b345771ba921361b318e95bf21b257c65ac141c Documentation: update include path for mpssd > 8c2b0dc83d9840da4d993a5dbb15c5974ad5a188 Documentation: support glibc versions without htole macros > 6ab0e475f1f38b6be90aff4ef3ebf928c4a73dc8 Documentation: fix misc. warnings > adb19fb66eeebac07fe37d968725bb8906dadb8e Documentation: add makefiles for more targets > > Building v3.18-rc5 and I have glibc 2.17. > > The problem is that for big endian, the htole* macros are not simple compile > time transforms by the precompiler, but rather block code that must be executed > in function context. > > Build errors: > === > HOSTCC Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.o > In file included from /usr/include/bits/byteswap.h:34:0, > from /usr/include/endian.h:60, > from /usr/include/bits/waitstatus.h:64, > from /usr/include/stdlib.h:42, > from Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:23: > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:93:10: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function > .num = htole16(MIC_VRING_ENTRIES), > ^ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:96:10: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function > .num = htole16(MIC_VRING_ENTRIES), > ^ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:113:10: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function > .num = htole16(MIC_VRING_ENTRIES), > ^ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:116:10: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function > .num = htole16(MIC_VRING_ENTRIES), > ^ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:119:3: error: initializer element is not constant > .host_features = htole32( > ^ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:119:3: error: (near initialization for ‘virtnet_dev_page.host_features’) > In file included from /usr/include/bits/byteswap.h:34:0, > from /usr/include/endian.h:60, > from /usr/include/bits/waitstatus.h:64, > from /usr/include/stdlib.h:42, > from Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:23: > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:146:10: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function > .num = htole16(MIC_VRING_ENTRIES), > ^ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:149:3: error: initializer element is not constant > htole32(1<<VIRTIO_BLK_F_SEG_MAX), > ^ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:149:3: error: (near initialization for ‘virtblk_dev_page.host_features’) > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:151:3: error: initializer element is not constant > .seg_max = htole32(MIC_VRING_ENTRIES - 2), > ^ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:151:3: error: (near initialization for ‘virtblk_dev_page.blk_config.seg_max’) > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:152:3: error: initializer element is not constant > .capacity = htole64(0), > ^ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:152:3: error: (near initialization for ‘virtblk_dev_page.blk_config.capacity’) > make[3]: *** [Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.o] Error 1 > === > > Reverting the commits fixes the issue, however, a more targeted approach could > just skip make on Documentation/mic/mpssd/ until the endianness issue is > resolved. Or something else... > > Thanks, > Seth > -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
