Re: [Valgrind-users] Error when compiling valgrind

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Andrew Coles <and...@ya...> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On my system I experience a compile-time error when compiling a stock valgrind 
> (either from the CVS or with 2.0.0) - when <asm/ipc.h> is included (from 
> coregrind/vg_unsafe.h) the symbol __user is not defined.  Looking at 
> vg_unsafe.h it does mention including linux/compiler.h when running on a 2.6 
> kernel in order to define the __user symbol, but I am using a 2.4 kernel 
> machine and still experiencing this problem as  __user still appears in the 
> asm/ipc.h header.  The quick-and-dirty fix is to do a #define __user  before 
> the #include <asm/ipc.h> line, although I'm sure there must be a better way 
> to do it.

If you get the Debian's valgrind_2.1.1-3 source, you can get a patch for that.
It's called 01_ipc_stuff.dpatch. You may want to use the patches from the
Debian package because they solve some Debian-specific build problems.

>
> In case it's relavent (it may well be in this case) - I am using gcc 3.3.3 on 
> Debian testing/unstable, kernel 2.4.25.
>
> Andrew
>
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