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I tried to compile the cddafs software from gracjan and it didn't compile
on my Linux machine at work but it did compile on my Linux machine at home.

After a while I figured out what the differences where of those two sytems.
The file:

  /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.2/include/asm/posix_types.h

caused the errors.

This file is different from the one in:

  /usr/include/asm/posix_types.h

where asm is a link to:

  /usr/include/asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm

On my system at home, where I run egcs-2.91.60 the directory

  /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/egcs-2.91.60/include/asm  

does NOT exist. That's why the software did compile on that machine
without any problems.

So I removed the directory /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.2/include/asm
and now it also compiles on my machine at work.

But I still have some questions:

- Why is this asm directory duplicated by the installation of a compiler?
- If it is needed, how could it be that it is causing errors?

Thanks for any information about this....

-Remco

Quote:> I tried to compile the cddafs software from gracjan and it didn't compile
> on my Linux machine at work but it did compile on my Linux machine at home.

> After a while I figured out what the differences where of those two sytems.
> The file:
>  /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.2/include/asm/posix_types.h
> caused the errors.

> This file is different from the one in:
>  /usr/include/asm/posix_types.h
> where asm is a link to:

>  /usr/include/asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm
> On my system at home, where I run egcs-2.91.60 the directory
>  /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/egcs-2.91.60/include/asm  
> does NOT exist. That's why the software did compile on that machine
> without any problems.

> So I removed the directory /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.2/include/asm
> and now it also compiles on my machine at work.

> But I still have some questions:

> - Why is this asm directory duplicated by the installation of a compiler?

Perhaps gcc doesn't like something in it, so it builds a fixed version for
its own use.

Quote:> - If it is needed, how could it be that it is causing errors?

It may have based its fixed version on an old asm/posix_types.h, i.e., one
that came with an older kernel than the one you wanted to work with.

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