Licensing questions (was: [bug] elf.h incomplete)

2012-05-03 Thread Fedin Pavel
On 03.05.2012 19:24, Christopher Faylor wrote: Right. I've noticed the incompleteness of elf.h from time to time too but extending it would be tedious since you can't just cut/paste from a GPLv* file. Maybe one of the BSDs has something more complete these days? By the way, interesting questio

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 04:04:32PM +0200, marco atzeri wrote: >On 5/3/2012 3:59 PM, Fedin Pavel wrote: >> On 03.05.2012 17:34, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>> I've also run in to this problem, though in my case I just fired up a >>> VM to work around it... I needed the VM anyway to actually run the >>> new

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread marco atzeri
On 5/3/2012 3:59 PM, Fedin Pavel wrote: On 03.05.2012 17:34, Ryan Johnson wrote: I've also run in to this problem, though in my case I just fired up a VM to work around it... I needed the VM anyway to actually run the newly-built kernel. That said, it would be nice to be able to build on the hos

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Fedin Pavel
On 03.05.2012 17:34, Ryan Johnson wrote: I've also run in to this problem, though in my case I just fired up a VM to work around it... I needed the VM anyway to actually run the newly-built kernel. That said, it would be nice to be able to build on the host and just scp the new vmlinuz across..

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/05/2012 9:24 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: On 03.05.2012 17:08, Earnie Boyd wrote: To build the Linux kernel under Cygwin requires you have the proper libraries and headers for Linux installed in the cross environment. It should not be using the libraries and headers provided by the Cygwin build

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Fedin Pavel
On 03.05.2012 17:08, Earnie Boyd wrote: To build the Linux kernel under Cygwin requires you have the proper libraries and headers for Linux installed in the cross environment. It should not be using the libraries and headers provided by the Cygwin build environment. I know about this. My cross-

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: >  Why is elf.h include incomplete in Cygwin? >  I am cross-compiling Linux kernel under Cygwin, and i had to patch modpost > utility, adding missing R_xxx definitions for some reloc types. > Since kernel v3 i have to add some more definitions, as

[bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Fedin Pavel
Why is elf.h include incomplete in Cygwin? I am cross-compiling Linux kernel under Cygwin, and i had to patch modpost utility, adding missing R_xxx definitions for some reloc types. Since kernel v3 i have to add some more definitions, as well as patch one more utility, recordmcount. So, amount