The patch titled uml: get rid of the last symlink in uml build has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is uml-get-rid-of-the-last-symlink-in-uml-build.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: uml: get rid of the last symlink in uml build From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> We need to make asm-offsets.h contents visible for objects built with userland headers. Instead of creating a symlink, just have the file with equivalent include (relative to location of header) created once. That kills the last symlink used in arch/um builds. Have fun... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/Makefile | 25 +++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/um/Makefile~uml-get-rid-of-the-last-symlink-in-uml-build arch/um/Makefile --- a/arch/um/Makefile~uml-get-rid-of-the-last-symlink-in-uml-build +++ a/arch/um/Makefile @@ -22,10 +22,11 @@ MODE_INCLUDE += -I$(srctree)/$(ARCH_DIR) include $(srctree)/$(ARCH_DIR)/Makefile-skas -ARCH_INCLUDE := -I$(srctree)/$(ARCH_DIR)/include/shared +SHARED_HEADERS := $(ARCH_DIR)/include/shared +ARCH_INCLUDE := -I$(srctree)/$(SHARED_HEADERS) ARCH_INCLUDE += -I$(srctree)/$(ARCH_DIR)/sys-$(SUBARCH)/shared ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),) -ARCH_INCLUDE += -I$(ARCH_DIR)/include/shared # for two generated files +ARCH_INCLUDE += -I$(SHARED_HEADERS) endif KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -I$(srctree)/$(ARCH_DIR)/sys-$(SUBARCH) @@ -85,8 +86,8 @@ endef KBUILD_KCONFIG := arch/um/Kconfig.$(HEADER_ARCH) -archprepare: $(ARCH_DIR)/include/shared/user_constants.h -prepare: $(ARCH_DIR)/include/shared/kern_constants.h +archprepare: $(SHARED_HEADERS)/user_constants.h +prepare: $(SHARED_HEADERS)/kern_constants.h LINK-$(CONFIG_LD_SCRIPT_STATIC) += -static LINK-$(CONFIG_LD_SCRIPT_DYN) += -Wl,-rpath,/lib @@ -119,17 +120,13 @@ endef # When cleaning we don't include .config, so we don't include # TT or skas makefiles and don't clean skas_ptregs.h. CLEAN_FILES += linux x.i gmon.out \ - $(ARCH_DIR)/include/shared/user_constants.h \ - $(ARCH_DIR)/include/shared/kern_constants.h + $(SHARED_HEADERS)/user_constants.h \ + $(SHARED_HEADERS)/kern_constants.h archclean: @find . \( -name '*.bb' -o -name '*.bbg' -o -name '*.da' \ -o -name '*.gcov' \) -type f -print | xargs rm -f -$(objtree)/$(ARCH_DIR)/include/shared: - @echo ' MKDIR $@' - $(Q)mkdir -p $@ - # Generated files $(ARCH_DIR)/sys-$(SUBARCH)/user-offsets.s: FORCE @@ -148,11 +145,11 @@ define filechk_gen-asm-offsets echo ""; ) endef -$(ARCH_DIR)/include/shared/user_constants.h: $(ARCH_DIR)/sys-$(SUBARCH)/user-offsets.s +$(SHARED_HEADERS)/user_constants.h: $(ARCH_DIR)/sys-$(SUBARCH)/user-offsets.s $(call filechk,gen-asm-offsets) -$(ARCH_DIR)/include/shared/kern_constants.h: $(objtree)/$(ARCH_DIR)/include/shared - @echo ' SYMLINK $@' - $(Q)ln -sf ../../../../include/asm/asm-offsets.h $@ +$(SHARED_HEADERS)/kern_constants.h: + $(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@) + $(Q)echo '#include "../../../../include/asm/asm-offsets.h"' >$@ export SUBARCH USER_CFLAGS CFLAGS_NO_HARDENING OS HEADER_ARCH DEV_NULL_PATH _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch raw-fix-rawctl-compat-ioctls-breakage-on-amd64-and-itanic.patch raw-fix-rawctl-compat-ioctls-breakage-on-amd64-and-itanic-checkpatch-fixes.patch vfs-fix-switch_names-breakage-in-short-to-short-case.patch uml-get-rid-of-the-last-symlink-in-uml-build.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html