Re: [SSI-users] trying to build OpenSSI from source

[Mulyadi S. <mul...@gm...>]

Hi Scott...

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 05:46, Scott Walters <sc...@sl...> wrote:
> 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

either you get buggy patched kernel, or this version of kernel is
somewhat compiled with old gcc .... uhm, you use gcc 2.x? gcc < 3.2?
(I just throwing ideas to ease bug hunting here)...


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