Re: [PATCH] to not include a currently-included file in sanitizedheaders

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > When you post patches, though, could you include the
> > error message that it fixes?
>
>
> good point, and perhaps you can clarify something.  if you use just
> the sanitized headers and not the full kernel source, obviously you're
> not going to do any configuration and, consequently, if you look under
> the include/ directory, you'll see all of:
>
>   asm-alpha/
>   asm-arm/
>   asm-arm26/
>
> and so on.  however, because of no configuration, you'll never have
> the appropriate symlink, say, asm->asm-sh.
>
> what that means is that you better never incorporate a header file
> that contains anything of the form:
>
>   #include <asm/whatever.h>
>
> since it's guaranteed to fail.  that's what happened with
> include/asm-sh/ptrace.h -- it included <asm/ubc.h> and choked.  so
> just commenting out that single include directive was the patch.

I think you must have missed the crucial line from crosstool.sh:
  cp -r include/asm-${ARCH} $HEADERDIR/asm
Did you use the sanitized header support built into crosstool-0.32?
I suspect not...
- Dan

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