Re: Compile against 2.6-test5

[Matthew Beale <mixonic@synitech.com>]

btw-

http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/879

I posted a question at kerneltrap (and about 12 other places) while 
looking for a solution, sorry but i'm a pretty lame C coder, as is 
obvious by my not finding the rather simple solution pointed out by the 
other forum member.  It worked like a charm for me.  in the future, 
could the scsi features be disabled at compile? i was really only 
looking for ATAPI burning anyway, that was the whole point of using 2.6 :-).

I know feature requests from "lusers" who cant submit patches are looked 
down upon pretty heavily, but hey cant help trying.

-mixonic

>>>>>Fix form the forum member tonyicemanz as follows:

used cdrtools-2.01a19...

edit cdrtools-2.01/libscg/scsi-linux-sg.c

go to line 60 and you should see somewhere down that, something which 
look like this code...
check this "patch", and put it in the code as I show ... and you will be 
able to compile it... (new part is in bold)

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#ifndef LINUX_VERSION_CODE /* Very old kernel? */
# define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 0
#endif


#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= 0x01031a /* <linux/scsi.h> introduced in 1.3.26 */
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= 0x020000 /* <scsi/scsi.h> introduced somewhere. */
/* Need to fine tune the ifdef so we get the transition point right. */
*
/******** New code to include the u8 type... */
#define __KERNEL__
#include <asm/types.h>
#undef __KERNEL__
/* End of new code ***************************/*

#include <scsi/scsi.h>
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Rob Bogus wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > > Old-Return-Path: <mixonic@synitech.com>
> > >    
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> > > I cant seem to compile cdrecord against 2.60-test5! is this a known 
> > > issue?  (in the code below i'm in the libscg dir, that seems to be the 
> > > root of all the other errors, such as -lscg not found).
> > >    
> >
> >  
> >
> > > cdrtools-2.01a19.tar.gz
> > > linux-2.6.0-test5.tar.bz2
> > > smake-1.2a19pre-2.tar.gz
> > > gcc-3.2.3.tar.gz - when this didnt work i tries smake since it was so 
> > > strongly reccomended by the docs.....
> > >    
> >
> >  
> >
> > > -matt
> > >    
> >
> >  
> >
> > > ps, i dont think i'm actually on this list, so please CC....the webpage 
> > > isnt very helpful in contacting the list......
> > >    
> >
> >  
> >
> > > [root@BettyBoop libscg]# smake
> > >       ==> MAKING "all" ON SUBCOMPONENT ".../libscg.mk"
> > >       ==> COMPILING "scsihack.o"
> > > In file included from scsi-linux-sg.c:69,
> > >                from scsihack.c:127:
> > > /usr/src/linux/include/scsi/scsi.h:215: syntax error before "u8"
> > > /usr/src/linux/include/scsi/scsi.h:215: warning: no semicolon at end of 
> > > struct or union
> > >    
> >
> > Definitely a Linux kernel bug.
> >
> > I did report this bug about a year ago, but Linus Torvalds prevents that 
> > this bug gets fixed :-(
> >
> >  
> ??? this is a compiler warning message, how does that translate into a 
> kernel bug? If it's a problem with gcc, it's still not a kernel bug.
>
> Care to clarify this, or is that your standard answer to all problems 
> of any kind on Linux?
>
> >  
> --
> E. Robert Bogusta
>  It seemed like a good idea at the time
>