Bug 689756

Summary: Kernel header problem on PPC (32bit), 64bit works
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Component: openbiosAssignee: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: crobinso, davej, gansalmon, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, tburke, virt-maint
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Description Karsten Hopp 2011-03-22 11:37:49 UTC 
Description of problem:
While trying to build the openbios package on PPC I've noticed that there seems to be a problem with the kernel headers:

 HOSTCC host/kernel/bootstrap.o
In file included from /usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:27:0,
                 from /usr/include/asm/sigcontext.h:11,
                 from /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/signal.h:339,
                 from ../kernel/bootstrap.c:13:
/usr/include/linux/types.h:27:1: error: unknown type name '__u16'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:28:1: error: unknown type name '__u16'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:29:1: error: unknown type name '__u32'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:30:1: error: unknown type name '__u32'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:31:1: error: unknown type name '__u64'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:32:1: error: unknown type name '__u64'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:34:1: error: unknown type name '__u16'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:35:1: error: unknown type name '__u32'
In file included from /usr/include/asm/sigcontext.h:11:0,
                 from /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/signal.h:339,
                 from ../kernel/bootstrap.c:13:
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:201:2: error: unknown type name '__u32'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:202:2: error: unknown type name '__u32'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:203:2: error: unknown type name '__u32'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:204:2: error: unknown type name '__u32'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:205:2: error: unknown type name '__u32'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:206:2: error: unknown type name '__u32'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:207:2: error: unknown type name '__u64'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:223:2: error: unknown type name '__u32'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:224:2: error: unknown type name '__u32'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:225:2: error: unknown type name '__u32'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:226:2: error: unknown type name '__u32'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:227:2: error: unknown type name '__u64'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:228:2: error: unknown type name '__u64'
/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:229:2: error: unknown type name '__u64'


This is reproducable with kernel-2.6.37-0.rc8.git3.1.fc15 and kernel-2.6.38-1.fc15
Comment 1 Kyle McMartin 2011-03-30 01:28:55 UTC 
Can you post a link to a scratch build with the kernel-headers rpm so I can take a look at it?

Thanks, Kyle
Comment 2 Karsten Hopp 2011-03-30 10:04:43 UTC 
http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=171833
Comment 3 Kyle McMartin 2011-03-31 21:19:20 UTC 
Troubling...
kyle@dreadnought:~/tmp/fu% diff -Nur ppc ppc64 | wc -l
0

I'm a bit confused how something is buggering up the includes...
Comment 4 Kyle McMartin 2011-03-31 21:46:51 UTC 
(Sorry, for clarification, that's diffing the relevant headers...)
Comment 5 Kyle McMartin 2011-04-03 04:08:37 UTC 
Looking further into this, ppc64 succeeds because it doesn't actually build anything... I suspect this is is actually a bug of somesort in openbios's ppc support, since I can't see anything wrong with kernel-headers.
Comment 6 Kyle McMartin 2011-04-03 04:09:47 UTC 
Yup: http://lists.openbios.org/pipermail/openbios/2011-February/006296.html
Comment 7 Cole Robinson 2012-05-29 14:23:50 UTC 
F15 is close to end of life, and openbios is retired in fedora anyways, so closing as WONTFIX.