linux-stable/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.rst
Linus Torvalds 39ceda5ce1 Kbuild updates for v5.3
- remove headers_{install,check}_all targets
 
 - remove unreasonable 'depends on !UML' from CONFIG_SAMPLES
 
 - re-implement 'make headers_install' more cleanly
 
 - add new header-test-y syntax to compile-test headers
 
 - compile-test exported headers to ensure they are compilable in
   user-space
 
 - compile-test headers under include/ to ensure they are self-contained
 
 - remove -Waggregate-return, -Wno-uninitialized, -Wno-unused-value flags
 
 - add -Werror=unknown-warning-option for Clang
 
 - add 128-bit built-in types support to genksyms
 
 - fix missed rebuild of modules.builtin
 
 - propagate 'No space left on device' error in fixdep to Make
 
 - allow Clang to use its integrated assembler
 
 - improve some coccinelle scripts
 
 - add a new flag KBUILD_ABS_SRCTREE to request Kbuild to use absolute
   path for $(srctree).
 
 - do not ignore errors when compression utility is missing
 
 - misc cleanups
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - remove headers_{install,check}_all targets

 - remove unreasonable 'depends on !UML' from CONFIG_SAMPLES

 - re-implement 'make headers_install' more cleanly

 - add new header-test-y syntax to compile-test headers

 - compile-test exported headers to ensure they are compilable in
   user-space

 - compile-test headers under include/ to ensure they are self-contained

 - remove -Waggregate-return, -Wno-uninitialized, -Wno-unused-value
   flags

 - add -Werror=unknown-warning-option for Clang

 - add 128-bit built-in types support to genksyms

 - fix missed rebuild of modules.builtin

 - propagate 'No space left on device' error in fixdep to Make

 - allow Clang to use its integrated assembler

 - improve some coccinelle scripts

 - add a new flag KBUILD_ABS_SRCTREE to request Kbuild to use absolute
   path for $(srctree).

 - do not ignore errors when compression utility is missing

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (49 commits)
  kbuild: use -- separater intead of $(filter-out ...) for cc-cross-prefix
  kbuild: Inform user to pass ARCH= for make mrproper
  kbuild: fix compression errors getting ignored
  kbuild: add a flag to force absolute path for srctree
  kbuild: replace KBUILD_SRCTREE with boolean building_out_of_srctree
  kbuild: remove src and obj from the top Makefile
  scripts/tags.sh: remove unused environment variables from comments
  scripts/tags.sh: drop SUBARCH support for ARM
  kbuild: compile-test kernel headers to ensure they are self-contained
  kheaders: include only headers into kheaders_data.tar.xz
  kheaders: remove meaningless -R option of 'ls'
  kbuild: support header-test-pattern-y
  kbuild: do not create wrappers for header-test-y
  kbuild: compile-test exported headers to ensure they are self-contained
  init/Kconfig: add CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK
  kallsyms: exclude kasan local symbols on s390
  kbuild: add more hints about SUBDIRS replacement
  coccinelle: api/stream_open: treat all wait_.*() calls as blocking
  coccinelle: put_device: Add a cast to an expression for an assignment
  coccinelle: put_device: Adjust a message construction
  ...
2019-07-12 16:03:16 -07:00

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=============================================
Exporting kernel headers for use by userspace
=============================================
The "make headers_install" command exports the kernel's header files in a
form suitable for use by userspace programs.
The linux kernel's exported header files describe the API for user space
programs attempting to use kernel services. These kernel header files are
used by the system's C library (such as glibc or uClibc) to define available
system calls, as well as constants and structures to be used with these
system calls. The C library's header files include the kernel header files
from the "linux" subdirectory. The system's libc headers are usually
installed at the default location /usr/include and the kernel headers in
subdirectories under that (most notably /usr/include/linux and
/usr/include/asm).
Kernel headers are backwards compatible, but not forwards compatible. This
means that a program built against a C library using older kernel headers
should run on a newer kernel (although it may not have access to new
features), but a program built against newer kernel headers may not work on an
older kernel.
The "make headers_install" command can be run in the top level directory of the
kernel source code (or using a standard out-of-tree build). It takes two
optional arguments::
make headers_install ARCH=i386 INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr
ARCH indicates which architecture to produce headers for, and defaults to the
current architecture. The linux/asm directory of the exported kernel headers
is platform-specific, to see a complete list of supported architectures use
the command::
ls -d include/asm-* | sed 's/.*-//'
INSTALL_HDR_PATH indicates where to install the headers. It defaults to
"./usr".
An 'include' directory is automatically created inside INSTALL_HDR_PATH and
headers are installed in 'INSTALL_HDR_PATH/include'.
The kernel header export infrastructure is maintained by David Woodhouse
<dwmw2@infradead.org>.