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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:37, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 04:04:57PM +1100, Hamish Greig wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:25, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > > Ok, after having tested most of those spells with 2.4 kernel headers by
> > > accident, i now ran all tests again and fixed some compile problems.
> > > parted still doesn't compile, no idea why, the rest works.
> > > lilo has one caveat: it won't be able to boot from lvm devices if
> > > compiled with 2.6 kernel headers, as the 2.6 kernel doesn't have a
> > > lvm.h header.
> > > All of this is in test and devel and should be safe to use (this time
> > > really :)
> >
> > xfree86-devel fails due to use of linux/config.h during compile. I
> > removed (locally) it's (config.h's) include of the
> > linux/err_kernel_only.h file so it didn't choke. It has continued passed
> > the previous failure point (still casting ), but I am not sure if this is
> > a valid fix for this problem or not. Hamish
>
> I enountered the same problem with xine-lib and just fixed it there, and
> i think it's useful to have an indication when some program includes
> config.h, as that's definitely not the intended use of it, and may point
> to some wrong assumption in the code. xine-lib uses config.h to
> determine if devfs is compiled into the kernel and changes the default
> audio device to /dev/sound/dsp if it is. Since it only does it for the
> oss audio device and not for any other devices it uses it's basically
> useless so i removed it (especially because devfs in the kernel doesn't
> mean it's actually used on /dev).
> For the sake of not breaking any more spells with this, we could replace
> that error include in config.h by a #warning. That way there would still
> be some feedback when a program includes it, but it won't break the
> whole compile.

yep

Hamish
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