From 13e1df09284da53ae5abdd3364c36caf8f0f8916 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 05:30:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] kheaders: explicitly validate existence of cpio command MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If the cpio command is not available the error emitted by gen_kheaders.so is not clear as all output of the call to cpio is discarded: GNU make 4.4: GEN kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz find: 'standard output': Broken pipe find: write error make[2]: *** [kernel/Makefile:157: kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz] Error 127 make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:504: kernel] Error 2 GNU make < 4.4: GEN kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz make[2]: *** [kernel/Makefile:157: kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz] Error 127 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:504: kernel] Error 2 Add an explicit check that will trigger a clear message about the issue: CHK kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz ./kernel/gen_kheaders.sh: line 17: type: cpio: not found The other commands executed by gen_kheaders.sh are part of a standard installation, so they are not checked. Reported-by: Amy Parker Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAPOgqxFva=tOuh1UitCSN38+28q3BNXKq19rEsVNPRzRqKqZ+g@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada --- kernel/gen_kheaders.sh | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh index 473036b43c83..81b97f0f6556 100755 --- a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh +++ b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ include/ arch/$SRCARCH/include/ " +type cpio > /dev/null + # Support incremental builds by skipping archive generation # if timestamps of files being archived are not changed.