Bug 483644

The problem persists with glibc-headers 2.9.90-3 and kernel-headers 2.6.29-0.93.rc3.git10.fc11:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1113646&name=build.log

Could someone have a look at this?

That's a bug in kernel-headers.

Add -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES to your CFLAGS. You've asked for <linux/types.h> why would it be a suprise that it defines said types?

Not disputing that the kernel headers are stupid, but intermixing linux headers and glibc headers is invariably going to be fraught with problems.

Anyway, I added this to your CFLAGS, and a scratch build survived past dvbdevice.c, and then guttered later for unrelated reasons.

Finally, I suspect this was caused by a change from <asm/types.h> to <linux/types.h> in one of the DVB headers. This is going to break a whole lot of userspace and make me very grumpy, since userspace isn't defining the guard to prevent dev_t et al from being typedef'd.

Sorry for this Jakub, but I think this is only the top of the mountain.

(In reply to comment #3)
> You've asked for <linux/types.h>
> why would it be a suprise that it defines said types?

For the record, nothing in vdr directly includes <linux/types.h> so this is probably caused by problems elsewhere indeed, perhaps in the DVB headers like you mentioned.

I've also seen errors like this after adding -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES and managing to get past some other compilation failures:

In file included from dvbdevice.h:13,
                 from vdr.c:45:
/usr/include/linux/dvb/frontend.h:92: error: '__u8' does not name a type
/usr/include/linux/dvb/frontend.h:93: error: '__u8' does not name a type
/usr/include/linux/dvb/frontend.h:98: error: '__u8' does not name a type
/usr/include/linux/dvb/frontend.h:99: error: '__u8' does not name a type
/usr/include/linux/dvb/frontend.h:330: error: '__u8' does not name a type

I don't know if this is related in any way, but I thought I'd mention it.

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > You've asked for <linux/types.h>
> > why would it be a suprise that it defines said types?
> 
> For the record, nothing in vdr directly includes <linux/types.h> so this is
> probably caused by problems elsewhere indeed, perhaps in the DVB headers like
> you mentioned.

Hm, in case the problem is in the DVB headers, it's in the kernel, no?  Reopening in case the reason for closing this was the apparently mistaken thought that vdr would include <linux/types.h> itself.

Same behaviour in 2.6.29.1-102.fc11.x86_64

The problem is indeed that the dvb include files in the /usr/include directories are not in sync with the same include files in the /usr/src/linux/include directories.

VDR's make environment (Make.config) contains a variable DVBDIR that must point to the dvb include files for structures to be used to interface in the linux kernel DVB  api.
To get to the right modules they in most cases will be defined as /usr/src/linux/
The variable is used in the compile phase to generate the -I<DVBDIR>/include flag. 
So you can see what is happening now, the include files in the kernel that might conflict with the /usr/include/sys directory are now in the compilers include search mechanism.

So the bug really is that the dvb kernel include files are not in sync with the include files in /usr/include/linux.

So should the /usr/include/linux not be a symbolic link to /usr/src/linux/include/linux ?

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Folks,
Please forgive me if I am in the wrong place. I am new to this type of forum.
I am attempting to build glibc-2.5 under 2.6.9-89.ELsmp V5 32bit x86 
and I believe I am running into the problem discussed here.

...

gcc ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/if_index.c -c -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Winline -Wwrite-strings -fmerge-all-constants -g -Wstrict-prototypes -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2     -I../include -I/usr/local/src/glibc-2.5/build/inet -I/usr/local/src/glibc-2.5/build -I../sysdeps/i386/elf -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i686 -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../nptl/sysdeps/pthread -I../sysdeps/pthread -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../sysdeps/gnu -I../sysdeps/unix/common -I../sysdeps/unix/mman -I../sysdeps/unix/inet -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/i386 -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../sysdeps/unix/i386 -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix -I../sysdeps/unix -I../sysdeps/posix -I../sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu -I../nptl/sysdeps/i386/i686 -I../sysdeps/i386/i686 -I../sysdeps/i386/i486 -I../nptl/sysdeps/i386/i486 -I../sysdeps/i386/fpu -I../nptl/sysdeps/i386 -I../sysdeps/i386 -I../sysdeps/wordsize-32 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 -I../sysdeps/ieee754 -I../sysdeps/generic/elf -I../sysdeps/generic -I../nptl  -I.. -I../libio -I. -I /lib/modules/2.6.9-89.ELsmp/build/include -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include ../include/libc-symbols.h       -o /usr/local/src/glibc-2.5/build/inet/if_index.o -MD -MP -MF /usr/local/src/glibc-2.5/build/inet/if_index.o.dt -MT /usr/local/src/glibc-2.5/build/inet/if_index.o

In file included from /lib/modules/2.6.9-89.ELsmp/build/include/linux/netlink.h:5,
                 from ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/netlinkaccess.h:23,
                 from ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/if_index.c:32:
/lib/modules/2.6.9-89.ELsmp/build/include/linux/types.h:158: error: syntax error before "__sum16"
/lib/modules/2.6.9-89.ELsmp/build/include/linux/types.h:158: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `__sum16'
/lib/modules/2.6.9-89.ELsmp/build/include/linux/types.h:158: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/lib/modules/2.6.9-89.ELsmp/build/include/linux/types.h:159: error: syntax error before "__wsum"
/lib/modules/2.6.9-89.ELsmp/build/include/linux/types.h:159: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `__wsum'
/lib/modules/2.6.9-89.ELsmp/build/include/linux/types.h:159: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
make[2]: *** [/usr/local/src/glibc-2.5/build/inet/if_index.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/glibc-2.5/inet'
make[1]: *** [inet/subdir_lib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/glibc-2.5'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Please let me know if there is another venue where I could/should pursue this issue, Thanks!

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