Re: [Dri-devel] difficulties compiling

[Daryll S. <da...@pr...>]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 10:16:32AM -0700, brett wrote:
> i'm currently reading through the older messages so i'm sorry if this is
> duplicated and if it is you can just ignore me :)
> 
> ok, i'm running a heavily modified debian 2.1 distribution, the latest
> devel kernel (it's my understanding that i have to use the devel kernel
> as i tried 2.2.14 and it died in the kernel headers), gcc 2.95.2, and
> glibc 2.1.3.

No, you can use a 2.2 kernel. I do it all the time. In fact, there are
problems with the 2.3.45+ kernels that prevent them from working. Even
if you could get it to compile there's been some internal changes that
we need to look at to see if they require driver changes.

> its complaining when it tries to compile the kernel modules for dri
> support the first real error looks to be this:
> 
> /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:26 conflicting types for 'spinlock_t'
> 
> i checked and /usr/include/asm is a softlink to
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm, as i think it should be (i could be wrong,
> happens a lot).
> 
> any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Some people have had trouble with STRICT_KERNEL_NAMES in glibc
2.1.3. We've had some recent discussions of work arounds for it.

						 - |Daryll