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Masahiro Yamada 0d989ac2c9 kbuild: remove libelf checks from top Makefile
I do not see a good reason why only the libelf development package must
be so carefully checked.

Kbuild generally does not check host tools or libraries.

For example, x86_64 defconfig fails to build with no libssl development
package installed.

scripts/extract-cert.c:21:10: fatal error: openssl/bio.h: No such file or directory
   21 | #include <openssl/bio.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To solve the build error, you need to install libssl-dev or openssl-devel
package, depending on your distribution.

'apt-file search', 'dnf provides', etc. is your frined to find a proper
package to install.

This commit removes all the libelf checks from the top Makefile.

If libelf is missing, objtool will fail to build in a similar pattern:

.../linux/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h:10:10: fatal error: gelf.h: No such file or directory
   10 | #include <gelf.h>

You need to install libelf-dev, libelf-devel, or elfutils-libelf-devel
to proceed.

Another remarkable change is, CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION (without
CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC) previously continued to build with a warning,
but now it will treat missing libelf as an error.

This is just a one-time installation, so it should not hurt to break
a build and make a user install the package.

BTW, the traditional way to handle such checks is autotool, but according
to [1], I do not expect the kernel build would have similar scripting
like './configure' does.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFzr2HTZVOuzpHYDwmtRJLsVzE-yqg2DHpHi_9ePsYp5ug@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
2021-05-24 12:06:51 +09:00
arch Two perf fixes: 2021-05-23 06:32:40 -10:00
block block-5.13-2021-05-22 2021-05-22 07:40:34 -10:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto for-5.13/drivers-2021-04-27 2021-04-28 14:39:37 -07:00
Documentation powerpc fixes for 5.13 #4 2021-05-23 06:07:33 -10:00
drivers A few fixes for irqchip drivers: 2021-05-23 06:28:20 -10:00
fs userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: fix new flag usage in error path 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
include linux/bits.h: fix compilation error with GENMASK 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
init Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-05-07 00:34:51 -07:00
ipc ipc/mqueue, msg, sem: avoid relying on a stack reference past its expiry 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
kernel Two locking fixes: 2021-05-23 06:30:08 -10:00
lib Makefile: extend 32B aligned debug option to 64B aligned 2021-05-24 12:06:50 +09:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: fix new flag usage in error path 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
net Char/misc driver fixes for 5.13-rc3 2021-05-20 06:31:52 -10:00
samples Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
scripts kbuild: remove libelf checks from top Makefile 2021-05-24 12:06:51 +09:00
security trusted-keys: match tpm_get_ops on all return paths 2021-05-12 22:36:37 +03:00
sound sound fixes for 5.13-rc3 2021-05-20 06:42:21 -10:00
tools powerpc fixes for 5.13 #4 2021-05-23 06:07:33 -10:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
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Makefile kbuild: remove libelf checks from top Makefile 2021-05-24 12:06:51 +09:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.