From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:38:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] umode_t? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:14:17 -0500, "Eric Gillespie, Jr." said: Eric> Curves, a frontend to CVS (it's a Debian package, the closest Eric> i could find to a web page is this: Eric> ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/el/elf/curves), checks for umode_t Eric> with AC_CHECK_TYPE(umode_t, int). Unfortunately, it can't Eric> find umode_t because it's not in sys/types.h, but only in Eric> asm/types.h. Are programs supposed to know about umode_t? If Eric> so, it needs to be declared in sys/types.h somehow. Eric> I'm bringing this up here because Mosberger's name is on the Eric> header and it breaks curves on IA-64. Isn't the poinit of AC_CHECK_TYP(umode_t, int) that if umode_t isn't defined already, it will get defined as an "int"? You'll need to talk to glibc maintainers as to whether umode_t should or should not be defined. I don't keep track of the latest name space rules. --david