The genksyms source was integrated into the kernel tree in 2003. I do not expect anybody still using the external /sbin/genksyms. Kbuild does not need to provide the ability to override GENKSYMS.
Let's remove the GENKSYMS variable, and use the hardcoded path. Since it occurred in the pre-git era, I attached the commit message in case somebody is interested in the historical background. | Author: Kai Germaschewski <k...@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> | Date: Wed Feb 19 04:17:28 2003 -0600 | | kbuild: [PATCH] put genksyms in scripts dir | | This puts genksyms into scripts/genksyms/. | | genksyms used to be maintained externally, though the only possible user | was the kernel build. Moving it into the kernel sources makes it easier to | keep it uptodate, like for example updating it to generate linker scripts | directly instead of postprocessing the generated header file fragments | with sed, as we do currently. | | Also, genksyms does not handle __typeof__, which needs to be fixed since | some of the exported symbol in the kernel are defined using __typeof__. | | (Rusty Russell/me) Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> --- Makefile | 3 +-- scripts/Makefile.build | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index def7c79..e19a3e3 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -390,7 +390,6 @@ OBJDUMP = $(CROSS_COMPILE)objdump LEX = flex YACC = bison AWK = awk -GENKSYMS = scripts/genksyms/genksyms INSTALLKERNEL := installkernel DEPMOD = /sbin/depmod PERL = perl @@ -443,7 +442,7 @@ GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS := export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS -export MAKE LEX YACC AWK GENKSYMS INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON PYTHON2 PYTHON3 UTS_MACHINE +export MAKE LEX YACC AWK INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON PYTHON2 PYTHON3 UTS_MACHINE export HOSTCXX KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS export KBUILD_CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS KBUILD_LDFLAGS diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build index 89debbe..f013182 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.build +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ $(obj)/%.i: $(src)/%.c FORCE # These mirror gensymtypes_S and co below, keep them in synch. cmd_gensymtypes_c = \ $(CPP) -D__GENKSYMS__ $(c_flags) $< | \ - $(GENKSYMS) $(if $(1), -T $(2)) \ + scripts/genksyms/genksyms $(if $(1), -T $(2)) \ $(patsubst y,-R,$(CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS)) \ $(if $(KBUILD_PRESERVE),-p) \ -r $(firstword $(wildcard $(2:.symtypes=.symref) /dev/null)) @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ cmd_gensymtypes_S = \ grep "\<___EXPORT_SYMBOL\>" | \ sed 's/.*___EXPORT_SYMBOL[[:space:]]*\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)[[:space:]]*,.*/EXPORT_SYMBOL(\1);/' ; } | \ $(CPP) -D__GENKSYMS__ $(c_flags) -xc - | \ - $(GENKSYMS) $(if $(1), -T $(2)) \ + scripts/genksyms/genksyms $(if $(1), -T $(2)) \ $(patsubst y,-R,$(CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS)) \ $(if $(KBUILD_PRESERVE),-p) \ -r $(firstword $(wildcard $(2:.symtypes=.symref) /dev/null)) -- 2.7.4