Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile: Fix compilation for non-standard host kernel path

[Prerna Saxena]

On 07/07/2010 01:10 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 07/02/2010 06:15 AM, Prerna Saxena wrote:
> > Set up host kernel include paths specified by --kerneldir
> >
> > When host kernel headers are placed in non-standard paths, the
> > KVM_CFLAGS are presently invoked only for a few .c files
> > (kvm*.c,vhost*.c) and not for other files like machine.c, cpus.c
> > ..etc which also depend on linux/kvm.h
>
> I think that's a bug. What's the dependency of machine.c and cpus.c?

Both machine.d and cpus.d depend on qemu/kvm.h, which in turn needs 
linux/kvm.h

I am running a custom-compiled kernel for which the headers are placed 
separately. I pass the kernel source directory to my configure script as 
follows :

address@hidden ~]$ configure --prefix=/home/bloat/qemu-git/qemu-bin 
--enable-kvm --target-list=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu --enable-profiler 
--disable-docs --kerneldir=/home/bloat/kernels/linux-2.6.35-rc3
address@hidden ~]$ make -j2

This is one of the errors I get : (similar ones are flagged for 
machine.o and cpus.o)

CC    i386-softmmu/arch_init.o
In file included from /home/bloat/qemu-git/qemu/arch_init.c:38:
/home/bloat/qemu-git/qemu/kvm.h:22:23: error: linux/kvm.h: No such file 
or directory
make[1]: *** [arch_init.o] Error 1

This is because the location of kernel headers is not passed as a '-I' 
switch to gcc. IMO adding the KVM_CFLAGS to QEMU_CFLAGS would be 
required for such cases.

Regards,
--
Prerna Saxena

Linux Technology Centre,
IBM Systems and Technology Lab,
Bangalore, India