Hi Sam! Commit 51b563fc93c8cb5bff1d67a0a71c374e4a4ea049 breaks Alchemy build in vmlinux.lds: mipsel-softfloat-linux-gnu-gcc -E -Wp,-MD,arch/mips/kernel/.vmlinux.lds.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/mipsel-softfloat-linux-gnu/4.3.4/include -Iinclude -Iinclude2 -I/mnt/work/au1200/kernel/linux-2.6.git/include -I/mnt/work/au1200/kernel/linux-2.6.git/arch/mips/include -include include/linux/autoconf.h -D__KERNEL__ -D"VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS=0xffffffff80100000" -D"DATAOFFSET=0" -P -C -Umips -D__ASSEMBLY__ -DLINKER_SCRIPT -o arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds /mnt/work/au1200/kernel/linux-2.6.git/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S In file included from /mnt/work/au1200/kernel/linux-2.6.git/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S:2: /mnt/work/au1200/kernel/linux-2.6.git/arch/mips/include/asm/page.h:12:20: error: spaces.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds] Error 1 make[1]: *** [arch/mips/kernel] Error 2 make: *** [sub-make] Error 2 I tracked it to this part in the commit: diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile index c825b14..77f5021 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Makefile +++ b/arch/mips/Makefile [...] -# -# Choosing incompatible machines durings configuration will result in -# error messages during linking. Select a default linkscript if -# none has been choosen above. -# - -CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds := \ - $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) \ - -D"LOADADDR=$(load-y)" \ - -D"JIFFIES=$(JIFFIES)" \ - -D"DATAOFFSET=$(if $(dataoffset-y),$(dataoffset-y),0)" - This eliminates the a whole lot of include directives, among which is "-Iarch/mips/include/asm/mach-generic" which provides a path to the now-missing "spaces.h". Is there a cheap way to add this back again? For reference, here's the full compiler command for the previously-working case: mipsel-softfloat-linux-gnu-gcc -E -Wp,-MD,arch/mips/kernel/.vmlinux.lds.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/mipsel-softfloat-linux-gnu/4.3.4/include -Iinclude -Iinclude2 -I/mnt/work/au1200/kernel/linux-2.6.git/include -I/mnt/work/au1200/kernel/linux-2.6.git/arch/mips/include -include include/linux/autoconf.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -O2 -ffunction-sections -mno-check-zero-division -mabi=32 -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe -msoft-float -ffreestanding -march=mips32 -Wa,-mips32 -Wa,--trap -I/mnt/work/au1200/kernel/linux-2.6.git/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-db1x00 -I/mnt/work/au1200/kernel/linux-2.6.git/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-au1x00 -I/mnt/work/au1200/kernel/linux-2.6.git/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-generic -D"VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS=0xffffffff80100000" -D"LOADADDR=0xffffffff80100000" -D"JIFFIES=jiffies_64" -D"DATAOFFSET=0" -P -C -Umips -D__ASSEMBLY__ -o arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds /mnt/work/au1200/kernel/linux-2.6.git/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S Btw, I've been using bash-4 on my hosts since Gentoo added it to their repos a few months ago, and I haven't noticed any breakages so far. Thanks! Manuel Lauss