Re: [RFC] alpha: hack objstrip.c to make it compile.

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> wrote:
> On 03/29/2010 06:49 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
>> I don't think this is the appropriate fix. What should I do to fix this?
>> ---
>>  arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c |    3 +++
>>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c b/arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c
>> index 367d53d..54fa1ef 100644
>> --- a/arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c
>> +++ b/arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c
>> @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
>>  #include <linux/param.h>
>>  #ifdef __ELF__
>>  # include <linux/elf.h>
>> +# define elfhdr      elf64_hdr
>> +# define elf_phdr    elf64_phdr
>> +# define elf_check_arch(x) ((x)->e_machine == EM_ALPHA)
>>  #endif
>>
>
> Hum.  Is it so bad to just #define __KERNEL__ here before
> that one include?  Similar games are played in tools/perf/,
> and with a suitible comment I think that should be all right.
>
>
> r~

The problem is that, at least with my distribution, probably others
too, the headers installed into /usr/include/linux/ are stripped of
anything inside #ifdef __KERNEL__.

Matt