On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 06:07:08PM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote: >On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:30:56 +0100, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I looked briefly at the fstat implmnetation in the kernel and >> this did not give me any hints. >> I therefore changed to subject to attrack attention of more readers. >> >Thanks! > >> Can you supply us with a bit more information about your system: >> - filesystem (as fstat seems to reach filesystem specific code) >> - glibc version >> - box (architecture + 32 or 64 bit kernel) >> - do you see other things misbehave or is this only a kernel build thing >> >> If you have provided this info in the past I have missed it. >> >The kernel tree resides on an ext4 partition. The machine has two Xeon >E5520 processors and runs 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 which uses eglibc 2.11.1. >Note that the kernel is being cross-compiled for ARM under an >OpenEmbedded toolchain (have tried both gcc 4.4.4 and 4.5). This is the >only strange behavior that I know of. > But fixdep should be compiled by the host compiler... So, does this error also occur when you do non-cross compiling on the same partition? Thanks for your testing! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html