compilation, header files and cdrecord
Hello. I am trying to compile (so far without success) version 1.10 of
cdrtools (a suite of programs which includes cdrecord). I'm doing this
because the DVD/CD-ROM drive I have (a Toshiba SD-M1201) doesn't seem
to be supported either under cdrecord 1.8 (potato) or cdrecord 1.9
(unstable).
The system is up-to-date potato (2.2r2). I've tried compiling first
against the 2.2.17 kernel sources and then against the 2.4.0-test12
sources. The problem in both cases seems to a failure to find the
expected include files. A characteristic error-message is:
==> COMPILING "OBJ/i686-linux-cc/cdrecord.o"
In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:339,
from ../include/stdxlib.h:31,
from cdrecord.c:30:
/usr/include/sys/types.h:33: warning: empty declaration
/usr/include/sys/types.h:34: warning: empty declaration
/usr/include/sys/types.h:35: warning: empty declaration
/usr/include/sys/types.h:36: warning: empty declaration
/usr/include/sys/types.h:110: warning: empty declaration
/usr/include/sys/types.h:111: parse error before `;'
make: *** [OBJ/i686-linux-cc/cdrecord.o] Error 1
The include directories defined for the linux version of the
compilation are /usr/include and /usr/src/linux/include. On my system,
/usr/src/linux is a link to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.0-test12 at
present.
I understand, in a vague sort of way, that Debian has a different
policy with respect to kernel headers (versions and locations) than
some other distributions, and I've fiddled (in a not very informed
way) with different definitions of the include directories. No luck so
far.
If anyone has any advice to offer, I would be very grateful for it; or
if anyone has managed to make the Toshiba SD-M1201 work under older
versions of cdrecord), I would love to hear about that,
Jim
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