tools/objtool: check.c:11:10: fatal error: arch/elf.h: No such file or directory

From: Vitaly Chikunov
Date: Mon Aug 01 2022 - 15:28:07 EST


Hello,

git bisect shows that commit b51277eb9775 ("objtool: Ditch subcommands")
included in v5.19 introduces build failure on aarch64 for tools/objtool:

builder@aarch64:~/linux/tools$ make clean
builder@aarch64:~/linux/tools$ make objtool
DESCEND objtool
make -C /usr/src/linux/tools/build CFLAGS= LDFLAGS= fixdep
HOSTCC fixdep.o
HOSTLD fixdep-in.o
LINK fixdep
make -C /usr/src/linux/tools/lib/subcmd/ OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/
make -C /usr/src/linux/tools/build CFLAGS= LDFLAGS= /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/fixdep
HOSTCC /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/fixdep.o
HOSTLD /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/fixdep-in.o
LINK /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/fixdep
CC /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/exec-cmd.o
CC /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/help.o
CC /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/pager.o
CC /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/parse-options.o
CC /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/run-command.o
CC /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/sigchain.o
CC /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/subcmd-config.o
LD /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd-in.o
AR /usr/src/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd.a
LD arch/arm64/objtool-in.o
CC weak.o
CC check.o
check.c:11:10: fatal error: arch/elf.h: No such file or directory
11 | #include <arch/elf.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:97: check.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:54: objtool-in.o] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:73: objtool] Error 2

This is on ALT Linux using gcc-12.

Thanks,