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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:54:51 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Generating unistd_*.h
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On 08/31/2011 09:29 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/31/2011 07:01 AM, Michal Marek wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For reference, putting the following in arch/x86/include/asm/Kbuild does
>>>> *not* work, because $(objtree)/arch/x86/include/asm doesn't exist, and
>>>> so Kbuild generates an invalid path:
>>>>
>>>> objhdr-y += ../generated/asm/unistd_32.h
>>>> objhdr-y += ../generated/asm/unistd_64.h
>>>
>>> Similarly, overriding obj in the same file does not work, because
>>> scripts/Makefile.headersinst uses $(srctree)/$(obj) not
>>> $(srctree)/$(src) ... is that normal/expected?
>>
>> Can you either post a patch or a link to a git tree with your current
>> status?
>>
> 
> git://git.zytor.com/users/hpa/kernel/autogen.git
> 
> Patch attached.
> 
> 	-hpa

OK, trying to crawl back out of my exile into kernel.org cleanup land...
this problem still remains!

	-hpa