Re: Unversioned symbols when building kernel package

Hi!

On 1/4/23 23:00, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> According to this comment by Ben [1], this is an issue that is trivially fixed by adding the
>> appropriate header to arch/$ARCH/include/asm-prototypes.h. However, looking at the header
>> file, "#include <asm/string.h>" is already present so I'm not sure what else we're missing.
> 
> Indeed, and that file ([1]) wasn't touched in 5 years. I wonder if that then is not an error of the Debian build scripts.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/alpha/include/asm/string.h

That's not really an argument. It's also possible that the file needs to be updated.

> BTW the same error is already present for 5.19.6-1 - the build ran on 2022-09-18. Maybe the
> error corresponds with a change in the Debian linux repo ([3]) before that date.
> 
> Looking at [4] the message "Can't read ABI reference." could indicate a missing file - filename
> is defined in line 51 ([5]) and `/debian/abi/` does not exist in [3].

I don't think it's a bug in the Debian scripts. Otherwise it wouldn't just affect alpha.

Adrian