On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 06:53:42PM +0000, Graham Murray wrote:
> I am using kernel 2.3.36, and I am no longer able to build bash. I get
> the following error when trying to build bash 2.03. I previously built
> this sucessfully (though I cannot remember which kernel I was then
> using) last October. I have not updated either the compiler (gcc
> 2.95.2) nor glibc (2.1.2) since last trying to build bash. I am using
> a Pentium.
>
> rm -f shell.o
> gcc -DPROGRAM='"bash"' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='"i586"' -DCONF_OSTYPE='"linux-gnu"' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='"i586-pc-linux-gnu"' -DCONF_VENDOR='"pc"' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I. -I. -I./lib -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -c shell.c
> In file included from shell.h:26,
> from shell.c:53:
> general.h:189: parse error before `string_to_rlimtype'
> general.h:189: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> general.h:190: parse error before `int'
> make: *** [shell.o] Error 1
>
>
> I had the same problem (on a new system) running 2.3.35, so I suspect
> that maybe a kernel change has caused the problem.
>
> Has anyone else either seen this problem or been able to build bash
> 2.03 with the latest 2.3.x kernels?
Upgrade to glibc 2.1.3pre1, this was fixed already.
Basically, with the RLIM_INFINITY definition move from linux/resource.h to
asm/resource.h, bits/resource.h used to redefine it. Now glibc no longer
includes asm/resource.h and all is well.
Cheers,
Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj
Linux version 2.3.36 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips)
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