Bug#234236: util-linux: FTBFS - missing _syscall5 macro

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

clone 234236 -1
reassign -1 util-linux
severity 234236 normal
tags -1 -patch
thanks

Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> reassign 234236 linux-kernel-headers
> tags 234236 +patch
> thanks
> 
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> [snip]
> The _syscall5 macro is undefined and thus not replaced. Looking at the header
> files _syscall5 seem only to be defined for N32 or 64bit ABI.
> 
> It should also be defined for O32, and include/asm/unistd.h is severly
> broken WRT. The appended patch is against 2.6 upstream CVS, but should
> work for the linux-kernel-headers as well.

But then, util-linux should use more portable means than kernel headers,
like the syscall() interface.


Thiemo