Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 12/01/2010 00:58:05:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> cc1: error: include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
>
> (while building the boot wrappers - lots more of the same)
>
> Caused by commit ac4c2a3bbe5db5fc570b1d0ee1e474db7cb22585 ("zlib:
> optimize inffast when copying direct from output").  autoconf.h moved
> from include/linux to include/generated in commit
> 264a26838056fc2d759f58bec2e720e01fcb1bdb ("kbuild: move autoconf.h to
> include/generated") which was in linux-next since 14 Dec 2009 and in
> Linus' tree since 18 Dec 2009.
>
[SNIP]
>
> This latter build problem is probably only noticed if you build with a
> separate object directory (i.e. with O=.. on the make command).  The
> previous PowerPC maintainer tells me that defining __KERNEL__ in the
> BOOTFLAGS is wrong and should have been noticed.

Is this any better w.r.t __KERNEL__?