Because fixdep is compiled without -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, a 32-bit fixdep (in a chroot build root, for example) may fail to run on a 64-bit host system if any file has an inode larger than 2^32, which can easily happen (in my case, on xfs):
[ares07:~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-obj] $ make silentoldconfig -C $PWD/../linux-3.10 O=$PWD V=1 make: Entering directory `/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-3.10' make -C /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-obj \ KBUILD_SRC=/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-3.10 \ KBUILD_EXTMOD="" -f /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-3.10/Makefile \ silentoldconfig make -f /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-3.10/scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic gcc -Wp,-MD,scripts/basic/.fixdep.d -Iscripts/basic -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/basic/fixdep /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-3.10/scripts/basic/fixdep.c fixdep: error fstat'ing depfile: scripts/basic/.fixdep.d: Value too large for defined data type make[2]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 2 make[1]: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2 make: *** [sub-make] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-pae-3.10.9~jng20/linux-3.10' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
