On Sun, 31 Mar 2013, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > The user-space binaries build in samples/ uses the installed > headers for the kernel. > Therefore it is wrong that they use the host compiler > to build the samples. > > Following is an attempt to create some infrastructure > for building user-space binaries that uses the uapi headers. > > As my sparc cross toolchain does not supporting building > user-space I have not been able to test this as good as I hoped... > > But faking that my native gcc is a cross gcc seems to work. > > This adds two new variables to the top-level Makefile: > UAPICC and UAPICFLAGS > > The architectures that supports both 32 and 64 bit set the > appropriate flags in UAPICFLAGS. > > scripts/Makefile.uapiprogs cantains all the infrastructure. > > I updated the samples for hidraw and seccomp to use the new > infrastructure. > > The file says: > +# Sample syntax (see Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt for reference) > > But I did not bother to write this yet - awaiting feedback. I generally like the idea. It'd be nice to know whether this fixes the ARCH=sparc allyesconfig builds Fengguang has been reporting. Fengguang ... ? Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- 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
