Re: Where does crosstool get its "kernel" includes?

[Daniel Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Marius Groeger wrote:
> > > @Dan,Alex: Why are you using sanitized headers anyway, other than 
> > > that it is probably ideologically nicer, smaller, etc. towards the 
> > > apps? I'm only using regular headers and never ran into serious 
> > > problems.
> >
> > There are a few apps that don't compile properly with
> > regular kernel headers. ...
>
> If you do recall, or happen to run into any of those issues again, will 
> you drop me a line, please? I do recall certain peculiarities with very 
> low level tools, but nothing ever made me even remotely consider using 
> modified kernel headers. I would like to make sure nothing slipped my 
> attention.

Here are some errors in some closed source stuff I ran into that went away with PLD headers:

/usr/include/linux/list.h:682:2: #warning "don't include kernel headers in userspace"
/usr/include/linux/audit.h:101: error: field `nlh' has incomplete type

And from a different run:

In file included from /opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/thread_info.h:20,
                 from /opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/spinlock.h:12,
                 from /opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/blockgroup_lock.h:8,
                 from /opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h:19,
                 from /opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/ext2_fs.h:20,
                 from neveryoumind.c:13:
/opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/bitops.h: In function `int get_bitmask_order(unsigned int)':
/opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/bitops.h:78: error: `fls' undeclared (first use this function)

In file included from /opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/percpu_counter.h:11,
                 from /opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h:20,
                 from /opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/ext2_fs.h:20,
                 from neveryoumind.c:13:
/opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/percpu.h: In function `void* __alloc_percpu(size_t, size_t)':
/opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/percpu.h:45: error: `GFP_KERNEL' undeclared (first use this function)
/opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/percpu.h:45: error: `kmalloc' undeclared (first use this function)
/opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/percpu.h:47: error: `memset' undeclared (first use this function)
/opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/percpu.h: In function `void free_percpu(const void*)':
/opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/percpu.h:52: error: `kfree' undeclared (first use this function)
In file included from /opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/ext2_fs.h:20,
                 from neveryoumind.c:13:
/opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h: At global scope:
/opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h:49: error: `u32' does not name a type
/opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h:51: error: expected `;' before '*' token
In file included from neveryoumind.h:14,
                 from neveryoumind.c:15:
/opt/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-root/usr/include/string.h:58: error: `void* memset(void*, int, size_t)' used prior to declaration

As I said earlier, I'd love to submit fixes to the main kernel tree for
these, but I'm a bit overwhelmed, and the PLD headers were an easy way out.
- Dan

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