jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:

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>Well, my hopes of flawless compilation of the ps package under 2.2.2d
>have been dashed.  I followed the instructions in the FAQ, README, and
>release docs, namely (1) removing all old gcc stuff (and all /usr/include
>directories except /usr/include/X11/*).  I even removed the linux
>sources, reinstalled them from scratch, applied patch 1 and the buffer fix,
>to make sure all headers were unadultered. (2) ran the install script.

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>The kernel compiled flawlessly.  But, ps dies with a whole slew of errors
>such as 

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>/usr/include/linux/termios.h:69: parse error before `tcflag_t'
>/usr/include/linux/termios.h:69: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
>/usr/include/linux/termios.h:70: warning: data definition has no type or storage class

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>[approx 10E666 lines removed]

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>/usr/include/linux/fs.h:172: field `msdos_sb' has incomplete type
>/usr/include/linux/fs.h:177: parse error before `off_t'
>In file included from cmdline.c:12:
>/usr/include/linux/sched.h:236: parse error before `grp'
>cmdline.c: In function `swapread':
>cmdline.c:187: parse error before `off_t'
>make: *** [cmdline.o] Error 1

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>This seems to indicate to me that the header files are screwed up in
>some way.  As all headers had been deleated before {unning the install
>script, I can only assume that this means the headers with the new
>release (2.2.2d) still have some problems.  I am extremely reluctant to
>tear into these things, hacking quick fixes which break something else.

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>Has anyone got ps-0.97 compiling under linux 0.97.1 and gcc 2.2.2d?  Has
>anyone got the headers figured out?  If so, could you please post a step
>by step procedure for installing gcc/linux sources/whatever else?  After
>reading the aforementioned doc files several times I am unable to make any 
>progress.  I would like to figure out this header stuff once and for all,
>then simply put it out of my mind and go on to other things.

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>Thanks for any and all help!

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>Jean.

I got ps to compile just fine last night. As all of the header files are now
in /usr/include, ps doesn't need the -I/usr/src/linux/include stuff. When
cmdline.c tries to compile, it gets lost on some symlink and generates all 
those errors you mentioned. You should cp the blk.h file from from /usr/src
linux/kernel/blk_drv/ directory to your ps directory and change the 
#include "../kernel/blk_drv/blk.h" in free.c to #include "blk.h"
After doing all this, it should compile with no problem. The problem I think
was happening was that ps would include a file from the linux/include tree
which would try and include a file from /usr/include/linux and the symlinks
would confuse the compiler to no end.


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