Re: compile fails

[Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>]

Kevin Mullican wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am attempting to build the XFS kernel, but the compile is failing. I
> downloaded the source from the CVS repository today, and I generated a
> relatively generic .config. I am using gcc-3.2.3-52, libgcc-3.2.3-52,
> and glibc-2.3.2-95.33. During the kernel compile, I am getting the
> following errors:
> 
> make -C xfs
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4-xfs/fs/xfs'

Hi Kevin,

The linux-2.4 build hasn't been actively maintained in a while.
We have been talking about removing it from cvs because of this.

> xfs_vfs.h:46: syntax error before "bhv_head_t"
 > xfs_vfs.h:46: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
 > xfs_vfs.h:55: syntax error before '}' token
 > xfs_vfs.h:55: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `bhv_vfs_t'

These are due to changes made fairly recently.
You may have more luck updating a tree from around the 2007/08/20.

But even without the recent chagnes I'd be suprised if it was building.

Don