Re: [BProc] compiler error on bproc_ghost_reqs

[Wilton W. <ww...@ha...>]

Add " around 3.2.1 then gcc should be happier.. it will then interpret the
number as a string and not as a number..

- Wilton

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Andrew Shewmaker` wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:48:08 -0400
> er...@he... wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:37:04PM -0600, Andrew Shewmaker` wrote:
> > > I am attempting to use bproc-3.2.1 with Mandrake 9.0 (kernel 2.4.19-16mdk and gcc 3.2)
> > > I have successfully patched and compiled Mandrake's kernel with bproc, which meant I 
> > > had to do some of it by hand since the grsecurity stuff confused patch. Then I tried to 
> > > compile the bproc tools and I see the following error.
> > > 
> > > ghost.c:63: initializer element is not constant
> > > ghost.c:63: (near initialization for `bproc_ghost_reqs')
> > > ghost.c:63: initializer element is not constant
> > > 
> > > I assume this is simply due to gcc 3.2, and I will switch to an older compiler if I 
> > > have to, but if someone could suggest a simple fix I would appreciate it.
> > 
> > I have no idea how a constant can become non constant when changing
> > compilers.  Anyway, I worked around it.  Patch below (against bproc 3.2.1):
> 
> 
> Thanks for the patch (I haven't tried J.A. Magallon's).  I've run into some other weird 
> problems that I was able to work around.  Basically, it looks like gcc 3.2 was unhappy with 
> PACKAGE_VERSION having more than one decimal, and it said that there was a parse error 
> caused by PACKAGE_VERSION in the call to MODULE_DESCRIPTION.  It looked to me like the patch 
> applied cleanly (except for unimportant revision control lines).
> 
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -I. -I../vmadump -I../clients -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk-bproc/include -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE  -DPACKAGE_VERSION='3.2.1' -DPACKAGE_MAGIC='11598' -DENABLE_DEBUG -DLINUX_TCP_IS_BROKEN -DSUPPORT_FILEREQ -c interface.c
> interface.c:52: too many decimal points in floating constant
> interface.c:52: parse error before numeric constant
> interface.c: In function `bproc_version_check':
> interface.c:1170: too many decimal points in floating constant
> interface.c:1170: warning: missing braces around initializer
> interface.c:1170: warning: (near initialization for `vers.version_string')
> interface.c: In function `init_module':
> interface.c:1396: too many decimal points in floating constant
> interface.c:1396: warning: format argument is not a pointer (arg 2)
> interface.c:1396: warning: format argument is not a pointer (arg 2)
> make[1]: *** [interface.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/bproc-3.2.1/kernel'
> make: *** [kernel] Error 2
> 
> 
> Changing PACKAGE_VERSION to 3.2
> 
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -I. -I../vmadump -I../clients -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk-bproc/include -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE  -DPACKAGE_VERSION='3.2' -DPACKAGE_MAGIC='11598' -DENABLE_DEBUG -DLINUX_TCP_IS_BROKEN -DSUPPORT_FILEREQ -c interface.c
> interface.c:52: parse error before numeric constant
> interface.c: In function `bproc_version_check':
> interface.c:1170: warning: missing braces around initializer
> interface.c:1170: warning: (near initialization for `vers.version_string')
> interface.c: In function `init_module':
> interface.c:1396: warning: format argument is not a pointer (arg 2)
> interface.c:1396: warning: format argument is not a pointer (arg 2)
> make[1]: *** [interface.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/bproc-3.2.1/kernel'
> make: *** [kernel] Error 2
> 
> 
> So I removed PACKAGE_VERSION from the call to MODULE_DESCRIPTION and interface.c compiled.
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
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