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authorUlises Mendez Martinez <umendez@google.com>2026-09-04 15:07:09 +0000
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commit 3f2de814c059 ("objtool: Fix libopcodes linking with static libraries") tested for libopcodes availability by linking a test snippet with a forward declaration of disassemble_init_for_target(). However, testing symbol linkage with an extern declaration only verifies the presence of the library (.so/.a) and bypasses checking for development headers (binutils-dev). On systems where libopcodes is present without development headers installed, the probe succeeds, enabling BUILD_DISAS. Subsequent compilation of objtool then fails: fatal error: 'bfd.h' file not found 113 | #include <bfd.h> Additionally, the probe invokes $(HOSTCC) without $(HOSTCFLAGS), ignoring any sysroot or include flags specified for the host compiler. Fix this by including <bfd.h> and <dis-asm.h> directly in the test snippet, passing $(HOSTCFLAGS) so host compiler options are respected, and defining PACKAGE="objtool" to satisfy the configuration check in <bfd.h>. Fixes: 3f2de814c059 ("objtool: Fix libopcodes linking with static libraries") Fixes: 436326bc525d ("objtool: fix build failure due to missing libopcodes check") Reported-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Assisted-by: Antigravity:Gemini-Next Signed-off-by: Ulises Mendez Martinez <umendez@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904150710.2997558-1-umendez@google.com Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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+================================
+Development tools for the kernel
+================================
+
+This document is a collection of documents about development tools that can
+be used to work on the kernel. For now, the documents have been pulled
+together without any significant effort to integrate them into a coherent
+whole; patches welcome!
+
+A brief overview of testing-specific tools can be found in
+Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
+
+Tools that are specific to debugging can be found in
+Documentation/process/debugging/index.rst
+
+.. toctree::
+ :caption: Table of contents
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
+ testing-overview
+ checkpatch
+ clang-format
+ coccinelle
+ context-analysis
+ sparse
+ kcov
+ gcov
+ kasan
+ kmsan
+ ubsan
+ kmemleak
+ kcsan
+ lkmm/index
+ kfence
+ kselftest
+ kunit/index
+ ktap
+ checkuapi
+ gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer
+ autofdo
+ propeller
+ container