Hello,
In building the RedHat 7.0 srpm for gnome-utils on linuxppc
using glibc 2.1.94 and the Linux 2.4-test9 kernel I believe
I have uncovered a flaw in the linux/fs.h header. Unless I
apply a patch like below to linux/fs.h...
--- fs.h.org Thu Sep 28 18:32:55 2000
+++ fs.h Thu Sep 28 18:33:08 2000
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
#include <linux/stat.h>
#include <linux/cache.h>
#include <linux/stddef.h>
-#include <linux/string.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
#include <asm/bitops.h>
I find that the compile of gnome-utils fails as follows...
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -DGLADEDIR=\""/usr/share/gfloppy/glade"\" -I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/l
In file included from /usr/include/linux/string.h:21,
from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:23,
from badblocks.c:43:
this is because in the absence of ifdef __KERNEL__ wrapper on linux/string.h the
following conflict occurs between
extern int strncasecmp(const char *, const char *, int);
from /usr/include/asm/string.h and
extern int strncasecmp (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2, size_t __n)
__THROW __attribute_pure__;
from /usr/include/string.h.
This include for linux/string.h is not present in linux 2.2.x's linux/fs.h.
Also removing it has no impact on compiling kernels in Linux 2.4-test9.
Franz Sirl and myself can find no use for it in the linux/fs.h header.
Thanks in advance for addressing this flaw.
Jack Howarth
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-- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or look
-- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.0-test9 #16 Wed Sep 27 18:32:57 EDT 2000 ppc unknown
Kernel modules 2.3.15
Gnu C 2.95.3
Gnu Make 3.79.1
Binutils 2.10.0.26
Linux C Library 2.1.94
Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.94
Procps 2.0.7
Mount 2.10m
Net-tools 1.56
Console-tools 0.3.3
Sh-utils 2.0
Modules Loaded
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