Hello Dominyk! Dominyk Tiller <dominyktiller@gmail.com> (2014-11-11): > Hey all, > > Hopefully this email reaches the group, the Debian spam filter can be a > little overzealous at the best of times. > > I'm trying to compile the latest dpkg, 1.17.21 on OS X, but keep running > into this persistent error. It could be expected given the relative > newness of this release, but thought I'd kick the configure process > upstream for a better insight. > > Using a patch to fix the Perl location on OS X, and the MD5/SHA1/SHA256 > tool use, but nothing that should halt or interfere drastically with > compile as far as I can see. The error seems to be unrelated. > > Shall attach the build process and the patch, both of which are > hopefully some use. > > If anyone is particularly jumpy about email attachments, the error is: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC fdio.lo > fdio.c:113:36: error: expected ';' after expression > rc = fcntl(fd, F_PREALLOCATE, &fs) > ^ > ; > fdio.c:118:37: error: expected ';' after expression > rc = fcntl(fd, F_PREALLOCATE, &fs) > ^ > ; > 2 errors generated. > make[4]: *** [fdio.lo] Error 1 > make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > CC file.lo > make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a ";" character missing at the end of the line indeed; introduced in this commit: | commit 87b0b20b86407baf1deb4e91b3fd839e01228ac8 | Author: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | Date: Tue Jul 15 21:00:52 2014 +0200 | | dpkg: Try to preallocate the disk size for extracted files | | This might help in avoiding filesystem fragmentation, and possibly | improve performance on some filesystems. | | We use the system specific methods if available, and only use | posix_fallocate() if nothing else is available, because on some systems | its semantics are counter to what we want to obtain here, as the libc | library will fallback to manually writing '\0' to each block to force | the preallocation, instead of just failing and leaving the application | to do so if desired. Adding one should help you get further. ;) Mraw, KiBi.
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