Re: [uml-user] New member...need some help!!!

[Ingo S. <br...@th...>]

On Fri, 14 May 2004 05:42:37 -0700 (PDT)
Praveen M Morab <pm...@ya...> wrote:

> Ingo,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> Yes i did make dep ARCH=um....but it did'nt work. Here
> is what I did in detail.
> 1. Patched kernel by bzcat uml-patch-2.4.19-45.bz2 |
> patch -p1
> 
> 2. make menuconfig ARCH=um
> 3. make dep ARCH=um
> 4. make linux ARCH=um.

Looks ok to my taste ;-)


> But at the last step its giving error:
> 
> gcc   -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -U__i386__ -Ui386
> -DUM_FASTCALL -g -D__arch_um__ -DSUBARCH=\"i386\"
> -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE 
> -I/home/pmm9876/uml/linux-2.4.19/arch/um/include
> -I/home/pmm9876/uml/linux-2.4.19/arch/um/kernel/tt/include
> -I/home/pmm9876/uml/linux-2.4.19/arch/um/kernel/skas/include
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o proxy.o proxy.c
> proxy.c:296:1: missing terminating " character
> proxy.c:297: error: syntax error before "b"
> proxy.c:300:1: missing terminating " character
> proxy.c:306: warning: type defaults to `int' in
> declaration of `slave'
> proxy.c:306: error: initializer element is not
> constant

Seen the same error in usenet today. My suspicion is that a multiline
string constant is used which a more modern compiler complains about.
What version of GCC are you using? And could you post line 296 of
proxy.c with 10 lines before and after?

Cheers,
Ingo

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