Re: build breakage -- paravirt_{alloc,free}_ldt

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >> > with Linus' tree (ae04d14015) doesn't build for me with
> >> >
> >> > arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c: In function 'alloc_ldt':
> >> > arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:55: error: implicit declaration of function 'paravirt_alloc_ldt'
> >> > arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:79: error: implicit declaration of function 'paravirt_free_ldt'
> >> >
> >> > Config on http://www.jikos.cz/jikos/junk/.config
> >>
> >> hm, it builds fine here with your config. Did .28 build fine for you? The
> >> only change to this file since .28 has been Jaswinder's "423a540: x86:
> >> ldt.c fix style problems".
> >
> > Puzzled. On one system, I still get this build error even after make
> > mrpoper (I use this machine to build kernel routinely, so it certainly
> > didn't happen a few days ago).
> >
> > But I just tried on different system, and there is builds flawlessly. It's
> > gcc 4.3.1 vs 4.3.2. I will check a little bit more.
> >
> 
> I am using gcc 4.3.2
> 
> Please check 'git diff' if by mistake some thing is gone wrong or check 
> 'git log'

That wont show working tree corruption.

Safest is to move away the working tree into a backup directory and check 
out the tree again:

  cd linux
  mkdir ../linux-backup
  mv * ../linux-backup

  git checkout HEAD .

then, if this solves the build problem, do some forensics by looking at:

 diff -rNu ../linux-backup ../linux'

	Ingo