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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-07-01 19:24:31 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-07-01 19:24:31 +0300
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Remove the deprecated rule to build *.dtbo from *.dts - Refactor section mismatch detection in modpost - Fix bogus ARM section mismatch detections - Fix error of 'make gtags' with O= option - Add Clang's target triple to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS to fix a build error with the latest LLVM version - Rebuild the built-in initrd when KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is changed - Ignore more compiler-generated symbols for kallsyms - Fix 'make local*config' to handle the ${CONFIG_FOO} form in Makefiles - Enable more kernel-doc warnings with W=2 - Refactor <linux/export.h> by generating KSYMTAB data by modpost - Deprecate <asm/export.h> and <asm-generic/export.h> - Remove the EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL macro - Move the check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL back to modpost, which makes the build faster - Re-implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS with one-pass algorithm - Warn missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION when building modules with W=1 - Make 'make clean' robust against too long argument error - Exclude more objects from GCOV to fix CFI failures with GCOV - Allow 'make modules_install' to install modules.builtin and modules.builtin.modinfo even when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled - Include modules.builtin and modules.builtin.modinfo in the linux-image Debian package even when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled - Revive "Entering directory" logging for the latest Make version * tag 'kbuild-v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (72 commits) modpost: define more R_ARM_* for old distributions kbuild: revive "Entering directory" for Make >= 4.4.1 kbuild: set correct abs_srctree and abs_objtree for package builds scripts/mksysmap: Ignore prefixed KCFI symbols kbuild: deb-pkg: remove the CONFIG_MODULES check in buildeb kbuild: builddeb: always make modules_install, to install modules.builtin* modpost: continue even with unknown relocation type modpost: factor out Elf_Sym pointer calculation to section_rel() modpost: factor out inst location calculation to section_rel() kbuild: Disable GCOV for *.mod.o kbuild: Fix CFI failures with GCOV kbuild: make clean rule robust against too long argument error script: modpost: emit a warning when the description is missing kbuild: make modules_install copy modules.builtin(.modinfo) linux/export.h: rename 'sec' argument to 'license' modpost: show offset from symbol for section mismatch warnings modpost: merge two similar section mismatch warnings kbuild: implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS without recursion modpost: use null string instead of NULL pointer for default namespace modpost: squash sym_update_namespace() into sym_add_exported() ...
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@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ openssl & libcrypto 1.0.0 openssl version
bc 1.06.95 bc --version
Sphinx\ [#f1]_ 1.7 sphinx-build --version
cpio any cpio --version
+GNU tar 1.28 tar --version
+gtags (optional) 6.6.5 gtags --version
====================== =============== ========================================
.. [#f1] Sphinx is needed only to build the Kernel documentation
@@ -174,6 +176,18 @@ You will need openssl to build kernels 3.7 and higher if module signing is
enabled. You will also need openssl development packages to build kernels 4.3
and higher.
+Tar
+---
+
+GNU tar is needed if you want to enable access to the kernel headers via sysfs
+(CONFIG_IKHEADERS).
+
+gtags / GNU GLOBAL (optional)
+-----------------------------
+
+The kernel build requires GNU GLOBAL version 6.6.5 or later to generate
+tag files through ``make gtags``. This is due to its use of the gtags
+``-C (--directory)`` flag.
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