Re: Another compile problem with 2.6.15.5 on AMD64

[Steffen Weber <email@steffenweber.net>]

Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Thursday 02 March 2006 18:49, Steffen Weber wrote:
>> Jesper Juhl wrote:
>>> On 3/2/06, Steffen Weber <email@steffenweber.net> wrote:
>>>> Jesper Juhl wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday 02 March 2006 17:18, Steffen Weber wrote:
>>>>>> I´m getting a compile error with 2.6.15.5 on x86_64 using GCC 3.4.4
>>>>>> (does not seem to be related to the NFS one):
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    CC      mm/mempolicy.o
>>>>>> mm/mempolicy.c: In function `get_nodes':
>>>>>> mm/mempolicy.c:527: error: `BITS_PER_BYTE' undeclared (first use in
>>>>>> this function)
>>>>>> mm/mempolicy.c:527: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
>>>>>> once
>>>>>> mm/mempolicy.c:527: error: for each function it appears in.)
>>>>>>
>>>>> Try the following (untested patch).
>>>> Thanks for your reply, but this patch does not solve the problem (same
>>>> error message). I´ve appended my .config in case that might help.
>>>>
>>> Hmm, types.h contains the
>>>
>>> #define BITS_PER_BYTE 8
>>>
>>> that mmpolicy.c needs, so including that header should do the trick... odd..
>>> I'll look at the code a bit more.
>> There is no BITS_PER_BYTE in include/types.h. I´ve grepped through the 
>> kernel source (2.6.15 and 2.6.15.5) and found that BITS_PER_BYTE is 
>> defined only in arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_cat.c
>>
> 
> Whoops, I was looking here : http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/include/linux/types.h#L11
> 
> Try this patch instead : 
This patch solves the problem! :-) I have not yet rebooted the machine 
(it´s a busy webserver), but in case I do not reply again within one day 
you can assume that it works fine. Thank you very much!

Steffen