[SSI-users] trying to build OpenSSI from source

[Scott W. <sc...@sl...>]

Hi all,

I spent some time tracking down security fixes to the Linux kernel and
patching 2.6.14-ssi.

Trying to build the linux-source-2.6.14-ssi.tar.bz2 kernel from
`apt-get install linux-source-2.6.14-ssi`, I get:

  CC      init/main.o
In file included from include/asm/mpspec.h:5,
                 from include/asm/smp.h:18,
                 from include/linux/smp.h:19,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:26,
                 from include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from init/main.c:16:
include/asm/mpspec_def.h:78: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for
field of type 'unsigned char[6]'
In file included from include/linux/blkdev.h:10,
                 from include/linux/ide.h:14,
                 from include/cluster/synch.h:35,
                 from include/linux/vproc.h:16,
                 from init/main.c:76:
include/linux/pagemap.h: In function 'fault_in_pages_readable':
include/linux/pagemap.h:236: warning: passing argument 1 of
'ssi_rcopy_from_user' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
include/linux/pagemap.h:236: error: assignment of read-only variable '__gux_val'
include/linux/pagemap.h:242: warning: passing argument 1 of
'ssi_rcopy_from_user' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
include/linux/pagemap.h:242: error: assignment of read-only variable '__gux_val'
make[1]: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
make: *** [init] Error 2

I get this same fatal in the patched and unpatched source trees.

Is this a toolchain problem?  Are there known-good versions of things
I should be using to build this?  Is building from source particularly
tricky?

Also:

Trying to check out CI from `cvs
-d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/ci-linux login`, the
(empty) password is rejected:

scott@debian:~/ssi$ cvs
-d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/ci-linux login
Logging in to :pserver:ano...@cv...:2401/cvsroot/ci-linux
CVS password:
cvs login: authorization failed: server cvs.openssi.org rejected
access to /cvsroot/ci-linux for user anonymous
scott@debian:~/ssi$

Thanks for any suggestions anyone can offer.

Cheers,
-scott