On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:12:42AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:21:11AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > Package: linux-kernel-headers > > Version: 2.5.999-test7-bk-10 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Hi, > > > > when the package is built, there is no include/asm. This causes > > /usr/include/asm to be used during package build, which breaks on > > woody. This will probably cause interesting effects when packaging the > > next kernel-headers version that has differing include/asm definitions. > > > > IMO, a symlink include/asm -> asm-$ARCH needs to be generated on > > package build, otherwise building the test suite will fail. > > Please give more details.
I am going to try. When building the package, the testsuite is built with something along the lines of -I../include which points to include/asm in the source package "root" directory. That directory doesn't have an include/asm symlink at this time of building, causing "#include <asm/foo>" to pull in /usr/include/asm/foo instead of ../include/asm-$ARCH/foo. This is not a problem on sid since sid systems _currently_ have a compatible (identical?) file in /usr/include, but fails on woody. And it's bound to fail when the kernel headers are changed in a way that include/asm will differ. > I know that changes to asm-i386/ show up in the testsuite results so it > works here. Perhaps a different version of debhelper is breaking some > assumption? Probably, since I am talking woody here. If this doesn't help, I will give more explicit results when I have again access to the build host. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
