was error in latest build, svn 15200: Enable getopt long

Thompson Harmon [US], Stanley W. Stanley.Harmon at sperry.ngc.com
Mon May 29 02:38:02 UTC 2006


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: busybox-bounces at busybox.net 
> [mailto:busybox-bounces at busybox.net] On Behalf Of Rob Landley
> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 10:23 PM
> To: busybox at busybox.net
> Subject: Re: was error in latest build, svn 15200: Enable getopt long
> 
> On Sunday 28 May 2006 2:31 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i got exactly the same error on a different FC5 box, so i'm pretty
> > sure it's not something i did.
> 
> What you did was upgrade to FC5.  (I'm continually amazed 
> people are still 
> using that, but oh well.)  Do I have access to a test system 
> running that...  
> (Rummage rummage...)  Yup, I can ssh to one:
> 
> In file included from 
> /home/landley/busybox/busybox/miscutils/hdparm.c:29:
> /usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:6:2: warning: #warning using 
> private kernel 
> header; include <endian.h> instead!
> In file included from /usr/include/arpa/inet.h:23,
>                  from 
> /home/landley/busybox/busybox/include/platform.h:125,
>                  from 
> /home/landley/busybox/busybox/include/libbb.h:14,
>                  from 
> /home/landley/busybox/busybox/include/busybox.h:21,
>                  from 
> /home/landley/busybox/busybox/miscutils/hdparm.c:36:
> /usr/include/netinet/in.h:354: error: syntax error before '(' token
> /usr/include/netinet/in.h:354: error: syntax error before '__u32'
> /usr/include/netinet/in.h:355: error: syntax error before '(' token
> /usr/include/netinet/in.h:355: error: syntax error before '__u16'
> /usr/include/netinet/in.h:357: error: syntax error before '(' token
> /usr/include/netinet/in.h:357: error: syntax error before '__u32'
> /usr/include/netinet/in.h:359: error: syntax error before '(' token
> /usr/include/netinet/in.h:359: error: syntax error before '__u16'
> 
> Pretty clear bug in Fedora's headers.  The bug is occuring 
> _in_ the header, 
> simply because we #included a header that works on every 
> other Linux platform 
> in the world.  Fedora shipped broken headers.  What a surprise.
> 
> That said, if there are people still using Solaris we can't 
> expect everybody 
> to have figured out Fedora was a dead end yet, so let's see...
> 
> Ok, I'm adding 16, 32, and 64 bit byte-swapping stuff to 
> platform.h with names 
> like "SWAP_LE16()", and we should use that rather than the 
> kernel stuff.  I'm 
> implementing them with the bswap() stuff out of <byteswap.h>, 
> non-glibc 
> #includes may need to figure out another header to include in 
> platform.h...
> 
> I'll fix this.  Off to fiddle...
> 
> Rob
> -- 
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Rob,

   I have this strange feeling that you are not a Fedora user like me.
My group is about to switch from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5.  Thus,
this is a great time to switch distros.  Which distro do you recommend
and why?  Please advise.

Thanks,
Stan




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