Hello,
unfortunately, the patch did not help. I still get the same errors:
$: mount -o ro,remount /usr
$: make xconfig
CHECK qt
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o
In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:133,
from /usr/include/stdlib.h:433,
from scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.c:3:
/usr/include/time.h:418: error: stray '\22' in program
/usr/include/time.h:418: error: stray '\377' in program
/usr/include/time.h:418: error: stray '\34' in program
/usr/include/time.h:418: error: stray '\17' in program
/usr/include/time.h:418: error: stray '\21' in program
/usr/include/time.h:418: error: stray '\377' in program
/usr/include/time.h:418: error: stray '\36' in program
/usr/include/time.h:418: error: stray '\21' in program
/usr/include/time.h:418: error: stray '\22' in program
/usr/include/time.h:418: error: stray '\377' in program
...
/usr/include/time.h only has 417 lines.
-Joe
Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote on 01/17/06 16:08:
> Hello
>
> Sorry for delayed answer. we had long holidays here.
> Please try whether attached patch fixes the problem.
>
> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 01:04 -0800, Joe Feise wrote:
>> Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote on 12/28/05 18:31:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 21:25 -0800, Joe Feise wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> in one of my systems, I have /usr on a Reiser4 partition.
>>>> When I have that partition mounted read-only, I get errors whenever
>>>> I try to compile anything. Other programs that read from that partition
>>>> also
>>>> seem to fail, but I don't get such nice output like the stuff from gcc.
>>>> I am currently using Slackware 10.2 with kernel 2.6.15-rc5-mm3, but I have
>>>> experienced the same problem with earlier kernels as well.
>>>> The output from a make menuconfig in the kernel source dir:
>>> Thanks for the report. We will take a look
>>>
>>>> $: make menuconfig
>>>>
>>>> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
>>>> In file included from /usr/include/bits/types.h:31,
>>>>
>>>> from /usr/include/ctype.h:28,
>>>> from scripts/kconfig/conf.c:6:
>>>> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/stddef.h:420: error:
>>>> syntax
>>>> error before '}' token
>>
>> I thought about this a bit more, and decided to take a look at the stddef.h
>> file.
>> As it turns out, the file has only 419 lines, so line 420 is past the end of
>> the
>> file.
>> That indicates to me that there is possibly a buffer that doesn't get
>> cleared if
>> the fs is mounted r/o (an optimization gone wrong, maybe?)
>>
>> -Joe
