Bug#234272: linux-kernel-headers: missing include in /usr/include/asm/ipc.h

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:12:33 +0100,
Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> on compiling valgrind-2.10 I get:
> if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I./demangle -I../include -DVG_LIBDIR="\"/usr/local/lib"\"
> -Winline -Wall -Wshadow -O -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -g -fpic
> -fno-omit-frame-pointer -MT vg_intercept.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/vg_intercept.Tpo" \
> -c -o vg_intercept.o `test -f 'vg_intercept.c' || echo './'`vg_intercept.c; \
> then mv -f ".deps/vg_intercept.Tpo" ".deps/vg_intercept.Po"; \
> else rm -f ".deps/vg_intercept.Tpo"; exit 1; \
> fi
> In file included from vg_intercept.c:63:
> /usr/include/asm/ipc.h:10: error: field `__user' has incomplete type
> /usr/include/asm/ipc.h:10: error: parse error before '*' token
> /usr/include/asm/ipc.h:12: error: parse error before '}' token
> make[3]: *** [vg_intercept.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hendrik/BUILD/test/valgrind-2.1.0/coregrind'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hendrik/BUILD/test/valgrind-2.1.0/coregrind'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hendrik/BUILD/test/valgrind-2.1.0'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> This is cause by a line:
> #include <asm/ipc.h>  
>
> However, asm/ipc.h uses a struct msgbuf but does not declare it. This cannot work.
> gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.3 fail.
> 
> /usr/include/sys/msg.h looks like a good candidate although it's in package
> libc6-dev.

You included kernel header asm/ipc.h, so I think linux/msg.h is
appropriate, but it's ok to use sys/msg.h because linux/msg.h and
sys/msg.h have same definition.

But I think this is not libc6 bug, and it should be reassigned to
valgrind.  OK?

Regards,
-- gotom