[BusyBox] linux 2.6 and busybox 1.00-pre10

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 25 June 2004 04:04, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:36:32 -0500
>
> Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 June 2004 12:08, Simon Keimer wrote:
> > > hi there,
> > >
> > > I try to compile busybox 1.00-pre10 on an linux 2.6.6 system. I get
> > > the following error message:
> > >
> > > gcc -I./include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wshadow -Os -march=i386
> > > -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -falign-functions=0 -falign-jumps=0
> > > -falign-loops=0 -fomit-frame-pointer -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG   -Os
> > > -c -o libbb/loop.o libbb/loop.c
> > > libbb/loop.c:51: error: parse error before "__kernel_old_dev_t"
>
> I suspect this is caused by having an include/asm from 2.4 and
> include/linux from 2.6, __kernel_old_dev_t is defined in
> <asm/posix_types.h> under 2.6 so it should work.

It's not in the 2.6.5 version of Mazur's headers or newer.

I posted a patch (more than once during the recent list constipation).  People 
using current versions of mazur's 2.6 headers will break due to the version 
test in busybox: they work like 2.4 did.

> Glenn

Rob
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