Re: [Valgrind-users] Problem to compile

[Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...>]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Daniel Luginger wrote:

> I've some problem to compile the sources.
> The versions i've tried are 2.0.0 and 2.1.1 and the compilers i used are
> gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.3.3
>
> ./configure without arguments.
> make produces these lines:
>
> Version 2.0.0:
> gcc-2.95 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I./demangle -I../include
> -DVG_LIBDIR=3D"\"/usr/local/lib"\"   -Winline -Wall -Wshadow -O
> -fomit-frame-pointer -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3D2 -g
> -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3D2 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -c `test -f
> 'vg_intercept.c' || echo './'`vg_intercept.c
> In file included from vg_intercept.c:65:
> /usr/include/asm/ipc.h:10: field `__user' has incomplete type
> /usr/include/asm/ipc.h:10: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or unio=
n
> /usr/include/asm/ipc.h:10: parse error before `*'
> /usr/include/asm/ipc.h:12: parse error before `}'

Some others had this problem recently.  See below for two workarounds.

Andre, is this a Valgrind problem or a Debian problem?

N


On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Andr=E9s Rold=E1n wrote:

> Andrew Coles <and...@ya...> writes:
>
> > On my system I experience a compile-time error when compiling a stock v=
algrind
> > (either from the CVS or with 2.0.0) - when <asm/ipc.h> is included (fro=
m
> > 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 kerne=
l
> > 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  b=
efore
> > 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.
>