Fix?  One ugly hack is replaced by a different ugly hack.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
 archclean:
        $(Q)$(MAKE) $(clean)=$(boot)
 
-archprepare:  include/asm-ia64/.offsets.h.stamp
-
-include/asm-ia64/.offsets.h.stamp:
-       mkdir -p include/asm-ia64
-       [ -s include/asm-ia64/asm-offsets.h ] \
-       || echo "#define IA64_TASK_SIZE 0" > include/asm-ia64/asm-offsets.h
-       touch $@
-
-
-
-CLEAN_FILES += vmlinux.gz bootloader include/asm-ia64/.offsets.h.stamp
+CLEAN_FILES += vmlinux.gz bootloader
 
 boot:  lib/lib.a vmlinux
        $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $@
 
  * to extract and format the required data.
  */
 
+#define ASM_OFFSETS_C 1
 #include <linux/config.h>
 
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 
 #include <linux/config.h>
 
 #include <asm/fpu.h>
+#ifndef ASM_OFFSETS_C
 #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
+#endif
 
 /*
  * Base-2 logarithm of number of pages to allocate per task structure
 
 #ifndef _ASM_IA64_THREAD_INFO_H
 #define _ASM_IA64_THREAD_INFO_H
 
+#ifndef ASM_OFFSETS_C
 #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
+#endif
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
 
        },                                      \
 }
 
+#ifndef ASM_OFFSETS_C
 /* how to get the thread information struct from C */
 #define current_thread_info()  ((struct thread_info *) ((char *) current + IA64_TASK_SIZE))
 #define alloc_thread_info(tsk) ((struct thread_info *) ((char *) (tsk) + IA64_TASK_SIZE))
+#else
+#define current_thread_info()  ((struct thread_info *) 0)
+#define alloc_thread_info(tsk) ((struct thread_info *) 0)
+#endif
 #define free_thread_info(ti)   /* nothing */
 
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR