From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:20:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:20:16 -0500 Received: from noodles.codemonkey.org.uk ([213.152.47.19]:13190 "EHLO noodles.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:20:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:27:50 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Rod Van Meter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: massive compile failures w/ 2.5.51 on RH8.0 Message-ID: <20021213002750.GB18156@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Rod Van Meter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1039738018.1348.80.camel@dadhcp-172019068122.americas.nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1039738018.1348.80.camel@dadhcp-172019068122.americas.nokia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:06:59PM -0800, Rod Van Meter wrote: > At this point I've concluded that something in my setup is busted. > Surely this large a fraction of things don't currently fail to even > compile? This large a fraction of things don't currently compile. And don't call me Shirley. 8-) Seriously, you got unlucky, and seem to be hitting just about every broken driver/filesystem there is in 2.5 right now. If you take a look at bugzilla.kernel.org you'll see that most of the compile errors noted there are those that you've highlighted. Things like Intermezzo don't affect a large proportion of users, so remain broken for some time. The framebuffer changes in 2.5.51 fixed up a whole bunch of problems that had been lingering for a while, but there's still a lot of drivers not converted over to the new API. Compile-time breakage is to be expected in 2.5.x. It's a hard-hat area. You may have more luck with 2.5-ac. Dave -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs