Re: Another compile problem with 2.6.15.5 on AMD64

[Steffen Weber]

Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Thursday 02 March 2006 18:49, Steffen Weber wrote:
> > Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > On 3/2/06, Steffen Weber <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday 02 March 2006 17:18, Steffen Weber wrote:
> > > > > > I´m getting a compile error with 2.6.15.5 on x86_64 using GCC 3.4.4
> > > > > > (does not seem to be related to the NFS one):
> > > > > >
> > > > > >    CC      mm/mempolicy.o
> > > > > > mm/mempolicy.c: In function `get_nodes':
> > > > > > mm/mempolicy.c:527: error: `BITS_PER_BYTE' undeclared (first use in
> > > > > > this function)
> > > > > > mm/mempolicy.c:527: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
> > > > > > once
> > > > > > mm/mempolicy.c:527: error: for each function it appears in.)
> > > > > Try the following (untested patch).
> > > > Thanks for your reply, but this patch does not solve the problem (same
> > > > error message). I´ve appended my .config in case that might help.
> > > Hmm, types.h contains the
> > >
> > > #define BITS_PER_BYTE 8
> > >
> > > that mmpolicy.c needs, so including that header should do the trick... odd..
> > > I'll look at the code a bit more.
> > There is no BITS_PER_BYTE in include/types.h. I´ve grepped through the 
> > kernel source (2.6.15 and 2.6.15.5) and found that BITS_PER_BYTE is 
> > defined only in arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_cat.c
>
> Whoops, I was looking here : http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/include/linux/types.h#L11
>
> Try this patch instead : 
This patch solves the problem! :-) I have not yet rebooted the machine 
(it´s a busy webserver), but in case I do not reply again within one day 
you can assume that it works fine. Thank you very much!

Steffen
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