Where is install_kernel_headers? (+ git web interface question)

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:21:59PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>I am trying to run the testsuite.

$ make help | grep testsuite
  check			- run testsuite
  test_compile		- compile testsuite binaries

>
># make compile
>...
>...
>make[1]: Nothing to be done for `compile'.
>  TEST_LINK assert/ assert
>In file included from ../../install_dir/usr/include/signal.h:354,
>                 from assert.c:14:
>../../install_dir/usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:31:29: error:
>asm/sigcontext.h: No such file or directory
>In file included from assert.c:14:
>../../install_dir/usr/include/signal.h:357: warning: 'struct
>sigcontext' declared inside parameter list
>../../install_dir/usr/include/signal.h:357: warning: its scope is only
>this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
>make[1]: *** [assert] Error 1
>make: *** [_dircompile_assert] Error 2
>
>
>I see that in main Makefile.in,
>
>$(LOCAL_INSTALL_PATH):
>        $(Q)$(MAKE) PREFIX=$(shell pwd)/$(LOCAL_INSTALL_PATH)
>RUNTIME_PREFIX=/ \
>        DEVEL_PREFIX=/usr/ \
>        HOSTCC="$(HOSTCC)" \
>        install
>        $(Q)$(MAKE) PREFIX=$(shell pwd)/$(LOCAL_INSTALL_PATH)
>RUNTIME_PREFIX=/ \
>        DEVEL_PREFIX=/usr/ \
>        HOSTCC="$(HOSTCC)" \
>        install
>
>does not install _kernel_ headers anymore, thus asm/sigcontext.h
>is not found in install_dir/usr/include/*.
>
>I remember I fixed it by introducing and using install_kernel_headers.
>
>I check the git log and the last commit regarding that is:
>
>commit 56ecf3ceca20ba5b1f41f9deba0134112b59f961
>Author: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
>Date:   Sat Apr 18 23:45:13 2009 +0000
>
>    install_kernel_headers: comment out copying of extra directories,
>    this seem to be not needed
>
>Okay. Someone removed it after that. I can't even find who and when.
>"git log" does not show it.
>
>It was removed not just from Makefiles, but install_kernel_headers.sh
>script was also nuked. Why? I created it because I did need it.
>I don't create scripts just because I have nothing else to do.
>
>I go to  http://git.uclibc.org/uClibc/tree/extra/scripts

http://git.uclibc.org/uClibc/log/?qt=grep&q=kernel
and look for "headers"
->
http://git.uclibc.org/uClibc/commit/?id=8d005aa103606748e113d1a7a09cfb2aeb6f7140
>
>and try to figure out when install_kernel_headers.sh was deleted.
>I can't figure out how to do that in git web interface.
>It was easy in svn - you go to a file or dir and you see all
>commits which touched that file/dir.
>
>Mike, Bernhard, can you help me out here?

Mike removed it since it's not libc's business to install kernel
headers (and i agree with him, fwiw).
You have to have a properly installed set of kernel-headers before
you build the libc, really.