In an attempt to build the FreeIPMI CVS trunk on a SuSE 9.3 (x86-64) with 2.9.6 kernel headers, we got some errors while it tried to build the openipmi support libraries. Perhaps the openipmi support could be made a configure-level option? Errors were as follows:
>From configure: checking linux/ipmi.h usability... no checking linux/ipmi.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: linux/ipmi.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: linux/ipmi.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: linux/ipmi.h: see the Autoconf documentation configure: WARNING: linux/ipmi.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" configure: WARNING: linux/ipmi.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: linux/ipmi.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------- ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to freeipmi-devel@gnu.org ## configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------- ## checking for linux/ipmi.h... yes checking sys/ipmi.h usability... no checking sys/ipmi.h presence... no checking for sys/ipmi.h... no checking for program_invocation_short_name... yes checking for /dev/urandom... yes checking for /dev/random... yes >From make: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I./../include -I./../../common/src -DIPMI_IPCKEY=\"/usr/local/var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey\" -DIPMI_DEBUG_IPCKEY=\"../../libfreeipmi/src/ipmi-semaphores.h\" -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -Wall -g -O2 -MT libfreeipmi_la-ipmi-openipmi-api.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libfreeipmi_la-ipmi-openipmi-api.Tpo -c ipmi-openipmi-api.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libfreeipmi_la-ipmi-openipmi-api.o In file included from ipmi-openipmi-api.c:58: /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:162: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:515: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:525: error: syntax error before '}' token /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:541: error: field `req' has incomplete type /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:566: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:587: error: syntax error before '}' token ipmi-openipmi-api.c: In function `_openipmi_write': ipmi-openipmi-api.c:341: error: storage size of `rq_packet' isn't known ipmi-openipmi-api.c:380: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type ipmi-openipmi-api.c:341: warning: unused variable `rq_packet' ipmi-openipmi-api.c: In function `_openipmi_read': ipmi-openipmi-api.c:396: error: storage size of `rs_packet' isn't known ipmi-openipmi-api.c:424: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type ipmi-openipmi-api.c:396: warning: unused variable `rs_packet' ipmi-openipmi-api.c: At top level: /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:580: error: storage size of `msg' isn't known make[4]: *** [libfreeipmi_la-ipmi-openipmi-api.lo] Error 1 _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel