linux-kernel - Re: scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h:4:22: fatal error: bversion.h: No such file or directory

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Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2016 10:25:14 +0800
From:   Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:     Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
Cc:     kbuild-all@...org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
Subject: Re: scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h:4:22: fatal error: bversion.h:
 No such file or directory

Hi Emese,

On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 09:19:05AM +0100, Emese Revfy wrote:
>On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 07:09:57 +0800
>kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Emese,
>>
>> FYI, the error/warning still remains.
>>
>>    ++(scripts/gcc-plugin.sh:12): main(): gcc-4.6 -E -x c++ - -o /dev/null -Iscripts/gcc-plugins -Iplugin/include
>>    scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins:30: warning: your gcc installation does not support plugins, perhaps the necessary headers are missing?
>
>Hi,
>
>You should install the gcc-4.6 plugin headers (gcc-4.6-plugin-dev package on debian if I remember well) for the plugins.

Right. However it seems Debian has removed that package from the repo.
So I'll disable gcc-4.6. Even though gcc supports plugins since 4.5,
it looks debian only provides the plugin headers for gcc-4.8, 4.9, 5
and 6.

Thanks,
Fengguang