Debian Bug report logs - #25376
libc6-dev: socketbits.h defines _LINUX_TYPES_H but has different functionality

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: libc6-dev: socketbits.h defines _LINUX_TYPES_H but has different functionality

Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:37:13 +0200

Package: libc6-dev
Version: 2.0.7t-1

Compiling the CVS cnapshot of isdn4k-utils, I got a lot of errors about
__u16, __u8 etc. being unknown in <linux/isdn_timru.h> (from the CVS snapshot
of isdn4linux). A quick search shows that these are typedef'ed in
<linux/types.h>. Unfortunately, including linux/types.h in linux/isdn_timru.h
doesn't help, because the program in question also includes sys/socket.h.
That in turn includes socketbits.h, which gratuitously defines _LINUX_TYPES_H.

The following patch solves the problem for me, but it looks dirty and I feel
other things that have worked around this problem in the past may now break,
so I'd like your opinion on this.

Thanks,
Paul Slootman

--- socketbits.h.orig	Fri Jul 17 03:35:13 1998
+++ socketbits.h	Tue Aug  4 10:36:20 1998
@@ -221,11 +221,15 @@
 
 /* Get socket manipulation related informations from kernel headers.  */
 #ifndef _LINUX_TYPES_H
+# define _SOCKETBITS_LINUX_TYPES_H	/* remember we did this */
 # define _LINUX_TYPES_H
 #endif
 
 #include <asm/socket.h>
 
+#ifdef _SOCKETBITS_LINUX_TYPES_H	/* undo it now */
+# undef _LINUX_TYPES_H
+#endif
 
 /* Structure used to manipulate the SO_LINGER option.  */
 struct linger


-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux janux 2.0.33 #1 Thu May 7 17:58:55 MEST 1998 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages libc6-dev depends on:
ii  libc6           2.0.7t-1       The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii  gcc             2.7.2.3-4.8    The GNU C compiler.

Message #12 received at 25376@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Harris <bjh21@cam.ac.uk>

To: 25376@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Apparently fixed

Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:30:07 +0100 (BST)

The current stable version of libc6-dev, version 2.1.3-10, doesn't include
a socketbits.h file.  /usr/include/bits/socket.h, which seems to be its
successor, doesn't define _LINUX_TYPES_H around its inclusion of
<asm/socket.h>.  This bug can probably be closed.

-- 
Ben Harris
Unix Support, University of Cambridge Computing Service.

Message #17 received at 25376-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>

To: Ben Harris <bjh21@cam.ac.uk>, 25376-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#25376: Apparently fixed

Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:16:59 -0400

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 05:30:07PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> The current stable version of libc6-dev, version 2.1.3-10, doesn't include
> a socketbits.h file.  /usr/include/bits/socket.h, which seems to be its
> successor, doesn't define _LINUX_TYPES_H around its inclusion of
> <asm/socket.h>.  This bug can probably be closed.

Thanks

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