Re: PROBLEM: error due to conflicting types during build of kselftests

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Fri Apr 27 2018 - 19:38:13 EST


On 04/20/2018 11:03 AM, Jeffrin Thalakkottoor wrote:
> hello,
>
> the following is the error found...
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> protection_keys.c:421:5: error: conflicting types for âpkey_setâ
> int pkey_set(int pkey, unsigned long rights, unsigned long flags)
> ^~~~~~~~
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> to reproduce this error...
> make -C tools/testing/selftests

Hi,

I can't reproduce this problem. What is your gcc --version?

Thanks.

> Details about software:
>
> Linux debian 4.17.0-rc1+ #1 SMP Thu Apr 19 18:59:45 IST 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> GNU Make 4.2.1
> Binutils 2.30
> Util-linux 2.31.1
> Mount 2.31.1
> Linux C Library 2.27
> Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.27
> readlink: missing operand
> Try 'readlink --help' for more information.
> Procps 3.3.14
> Kbd 2.0.4
> Console-tools 2.0.4
> Sh-utils 8.28
> Udev 238
>


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~Randy