In article <1992Aug14.024317.19775@inmet.camb.inmet.com> newbie@dylan.camb.inmet.com (Chris Newbold) writes:
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>I know there has been a blizzard of questions about how to get lilo up and
>running, but I jumped on the bandwagon a bit too late. I can't find any
>of the messages about setting it up on our site. I know I remember there
>were a couple of changes needed before it would compile...
>
>Anyhow, I'm having major trouble compiling it. There is a massive conflicy
>between the linux/include types.h and the include/sys/types.h ... I'm sure
>all of this was covered... If someone would be kind enough to point me
>in the right direction, I would really appriciate it.
>
>The problems: Both /usr/src/linux/include/linux/types.h and /usr/include/sys
>/types.h get included. I tried to fix this by linking /usr/include/sys
>to /usr/src/linux/include/linux. This seems like a hack, but I don't really
>know. Didn't reall help.
>
>Could somebody tell me how I _should_ have the include directories set up,
>and what files should be in them?
>
>I'm sorry these are such naive questions, but I'm a real newbie at this
>stuff.
>
>Thanx again.
>
>-Chris
>
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>                       newbie@inmet.camb.inmet.com

Well, problems compiling lilo version 3 were the hair that broke the camel's
back; I got fed up and decided to unify my set of header files.  I copied all
the headers from my kernel include directory to /usr/include, removed 
/usr/src/linux/include (making backups of /usr/include and /usr/src/linux/inc-
lude, of course!), tweaked a couple files to remove redeclarations of some 
variables and functions, and went about my business.  Everything so far has 
compiled just fine (groff, GNU file utils, text utils, lilo v3, ps, and of
course the kernel); I had to do a "make dep" in the kernel directory and 
make a couple changes to the SCSI makefile (to fix the seagate entry).  Oh,
yeah; lilo still looked for genhd.h, which I didn't have until I installed
the latest SCSI drivers from woz.headrest.colorado.edu.

I am running 0.96c pl2 with gcc 2.2.2; this may not work for 0.97, as I under-
stand that Linus moved around a lot of the header files (to /usr/include, 
perhaps?).
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