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On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 09:03:09PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Hello,
Hi Alexander,
> util-linux >= 2.12k doesn't build against linux-libc-headers 2.6.9.1, the
> error (recently discussed on Linux From Scratch lists) is:
>
> cc -c -pipe -O2 -mtune=i486 -fomit-frame-pointer -I../lib -Wall
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -DNCH=1 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> -DSBINDIR=\"/sbin\" -DUSRSBINDIR=\"/usr/sbin\" -DLOGDIR=\"/var/log\"
> -DVARPATH=\"/var\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -O2 fsck.cramfs.c -o
> fsck.cramfs.o
> fsck.cramfs.c:98: error: variable-size type declared outside of any function
> make[1]: *** [fsck.cramfs.o] Error 1
>
> That's because PAGE_SIZE is not a constant in linux-libc-headers. Moreover,
> the recommended way of determining it at runtime is calling
> sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE). That's what Debian does in their patch for the
> "cramfs" package, see
>
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cramfs/cramfs_1.1-6.diff.gz
>
> I have adapted this Debian patch to util-linux (see the attachment, this also
> applies to 2.12p), could you please apply it to the official package?
thanks for your report and sorry for my late reply.
I've done a slightly different but similar change in
util-linux 2.13-pre5.
> Alexander E. Patrakov
cu
Adrian
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