Re: [PATCHES] gnu: linux-libre: Update to 4.16

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 02:36:04PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> One more thing: I had to add 'flex' and 'bison' as native-inputs because
>> the build system in 4.16 now concludes that they need to be re-run for
>> some reason.  This could perhaps be avoided by adding a phase to touch
>> the generated files, but I didn't try it.
>
> I noticed this too while building 4.16 with Debian's tooling (`make
> bindeb-pkg`).

That's interesting.  I guess the timestamps in your unpacked source
directory were probably not zeroed, so I guess that timestamps are not
the issue here.

>> Anyway, here are the patches.  Test reports encouraged.
>
> Thanks, I'm testing this on x86_64 (it's what I have access to).
>
> I noticed this warning at the beginning of the build phase:
>
> ------
> starting phase `build'
> scripts/kconfig/conf  --silentoldconfig Kconfig
> Makefile:976: "Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel"
> ------
>
> The warning goes away when elfutils is available in the build
> environment.

Ah, good catch!  I've now added to my queue another patch which adds
elfutils to native-inputs in 'make-linux-libre'.  I'll push it to master
along with the 4.16 update after a bit more testing.

     Thanks,
       Mark