On 3/18/26 18:08, Hisam Mehboob wrote:
The backtrace() function and execinfo.h are GNU extensions available
in glibc but not in non-glibc C libraries such as musl. Building KVM
selftests with musl-gcc fails with:

   lib/assert.c:9:10: fatal error: execinfo.h: No such file or directory

Guard the inclusion of execinfo.h under #ifdef __GLIBC__, and wrap
all backtrace() usage under the same guard with a fallback message
for non-glibc builds indicating that stack traces are not available.

Unlike the approach of adding a weak stub for backtrace(), this
explicitly handles the non-glibc case rather than silently providing
an empty implementation.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/[email protected]/

Suggested-by: Aqib Faruqui <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hisam Mehboob <[email protected]>
---
  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c | 7 +++++++
  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c 
b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c
index b49690658c60..3442b80c37c1 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
   */
  #include "test_util.h"
+#ifdef __GLIBC__
  #include <execinfo.h>
+#endif

Is __GLIBC__ defined in musl-gcc? Looks like that is the case with the
error?

Check a couple of things first: did you run "make headers" and
do you have the correct packages installed on your system?

thanks,
-- Shuah

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