Re: libc6-dev: sys/user.h broken?

[rainer herrendoerfer <rainer.2@tiscali.de>]

Lennart Sorensen schrieb:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:17:54PM +0200, rainer herrendoerfer wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > did anybody try to include sys/user.h in a C program?
> >
> > test.c program in Sarge:
> >
> > #include <sys/user.h>
> > int main (void)
> > {
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > gcc returns lots of syntax errors:
> >
> > In file included from test.c:1:
> > /usr/include/sys/user.h:32: error: Syntaxfehler before "__uint16_t"
> > /usr/include/sys/user.h:34: error: Syntaxfehler before "ftw"
> > /usr/include/sys/user.h:35: error: Syntaxfehler before "fop"
> > /usr/include/sys/user.h:36: error: Syntaxfehler before "rip"
> > /usr/include/sys/user.h:37: error: Syntaxfehler before "rdp"
> > /usr/include/sys/user.h:38: error: Syntaxfehler before "mxcsr"
> > /usr/include/sys/user.h:39: error: Syntaxfehler before "mxcr_mask"
> > /usr/include/sys/user.h:40: error: Syntaxfehler before "st_space"
> > /usr/include/sys/user.h:41: error: Syntaxfehler before "xmm_space"
> > /usr/include/sys/user.h:42: error: Syntaxfehler before "padding"
> > /usr/include/sys/user.h:43: error: Syntaxfehler before '}' token
> > /usr/include/sys/user.h:80: error: field `i387' has incomplete type
> >
> > on 32bit Sarge everything's fine.
> > Or is this a gcc bug?
>
>
> Which part of this message are you purposely ignoring:
>
> /* The whole purpose of this file is for GDB and GDB only.  Don't read
>    too much into it.  Don't use it for anything other than GDB unless
>    you know what you are doing.  */
>
> I suspect something has to be defined just right to use that file.  If
> it happens to work in 32bit mode, well that's nice, but it may not have
> to work.
>
> Len Sorensen
To be honest: I tried to configure a patched version of util-linux and
received:

You don't have <sys/user.h>

packages.debian.org told me that it should be in libc6-dev which is
installed on my machine and the file is in /usr/include/sys/. So I tried
to find  out what doesn't work and ended in this testing program.
Perhaps the programmer of util-linux did know what s/he was doing.
Nevertheless should I ignore the "missing" header for util linux?
I wonder why configure complains about missing debugging headers.

Raina