BISECTED: Compile error on 5.4-rc1

From: Harald Arnesen
Date: Fri Oct 04 2019 - 04:26:45 EST


I just tried to compile kernel 5.4-rc1 on my ThinkPad, which runs Devuan
Beowulf. Got the following:

$ make bindeb-pkg
UPD include/config/kernel.release
sh ./scripts/package/mkdebian
dpkg-buildpackage -r"fakeroot -u" -a$(cat debian/arch) -b -nc -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package linux-5.4.0-rc1-00014-gcc3a7bfe62b9
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 5.4.0-rc1-00014-gcc3a7bfe62b9-1
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution beowulf
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Harald Arnesen
<harald@xxxxxxxxxxx>
dpkg-architecture: warning: specified GNU system type x86_64-linux-gnu
does not match CC system type x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, try setting a correct
CC environment variable
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
dpkg-source --before-build .
dpkg-source: warning: can't parse dependency -n libelf-dev
dpkg-source: error: error occurred while parsing Build-Depends
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build . subprocess
returned exit status 255
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.package:83: bindeb-pkg] Error 255
make: *** [Makefile:1448: bindeb-pkg] Error 2


Bisecting gives me

858805b336be1cabb3d9033adaa3676574d12e37 is the first bad commit
commit 858805b336be1cabb3d9033adaa3676574d12e37
Author: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Aug 25 22:28:37 2019 +0900
...

By reverting commit 858805b336be1cabb3d9033adaa3676574d12e37 I could
compile the kernel.
--
Hilsen Harald