Debian Bug report logs - #5623
problem recompiling dpkg

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

From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: problem recompiling dpkg

Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 02:33:33 -0800 (PST)

Package: src/dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.3

This package fails to recompile. The make bombs out on main/filesdb.c
due to the structure "sysinfo" not being defined.

After tracking down the definition of "struct sysinfo" (in
<linux/kernel.h> I suspect a possible error in the configuration
script. When I went into the generated config.h and changed the lines

/* Sort out sysinfo */
#if !defined(HAVE_SYSINFO) && defined(HAVE_NRSYSINFO)
#include <linux/sys.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/unistd.h>
static inline _syscall1(int,sysinfo,struct sysinfo*,info)
#endif


to

/* Sort out sysinfo */
#if defined(HAVE_SYSINFO) && !defined(HAVE_NRSYSINFO)
#include <linux/sys.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/unistd.h>
static inline _syscall1(int,sysinfo,struct sysinfo*,info)
#endif

(note two changes) the make succeeded. However, I don't really know
what I'm doing so don't take this fix blindly.

Phil

Message #12 received at 5623-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)

To: 5623-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:25:16 +0100 (CET)

This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer

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