Hi Adrian,
On 04.01.23 22:15, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
I just tried to build the Debian kernel package for alpha which fails with:
debian/bin/buildcheck.py debian/build/build_alpha_none_alpha-generic
alpha none alpha-generic
ABI is not completely versioned! Refusing to continue.
Unversioned symbols:
strcat module: vmlinux,
version: 0x00000000, export: EXPORT_SYMBOL
strcpy module: vmlinux,
version: 0x00000000, export: EXPORT_SYMBOL
strncat module: vmlinux,
version: 0x00000000, export: EXPORT_SYMBOL
strncpy module: vmlinux,
version: 0x00000000, export: EXPORT_SYMBOL
Can't read ABI reference. ABI not checked!
make[2]: *** [debian/rules.real:218:
debian/stamps/build_alpha_none_alpha-generic] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make[1]: *** [debian/rules.gen:426:
build-arch_alpha_none_alpha-generic_real] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make: *** [debian/rules:39: build-arch] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary-arch subprocess returned
exit status 2
According to this comment by Ben [1], this is an issue that is trivially
fixed by adding the
appropriate header to arch/$ARCH/include/asm-prototypes.h. However,
looking at the header
file, "#include <asm/string.h>" is already present so I'm not sure what
else we're missing.
Indeed, and that file ([1]) wasn't touched in 5 years. I wonder if that
then is not an error of the Debian build scripts.
[1]:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/alpha/include/asm/string.h
BTW the same error is already present for 5.19.6-1 - the build ran on
2022-09-18. Maybe the error corresponds with a change in the Debian
linux repo ([3]) before that date.
[2]:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=alpha&ver=5.19.6-1&stamp=1663530012&raw=0)
[3]: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux
Looking at [4] the message "Can't read ABI reference." could indicate a
missing file - filename is defined in line 51 ([5]) and `/debian/abi/`
does not exist in [3].
[4]:
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/master/debian/bin/buildcheck.py#L54-L72
[5]:
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/master/debian/bin/buildcheck.py#L51
Cheers,
Frank
