On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, John LeMay wrote:

|Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 18:53:45 -0500
|From: John LeMay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
|    Linux Kernel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|Subject: Re: PPP 2.3.5 won't compile
|
|Seems like I've tried everything suggested on the linux-ppp list here at
|least four times! I'm still unable to compile ppp-2.3.5 though. Thought
|I'd repost and include the kernel folks and see if anyone else has a
|suggestion. Basically, this is what I have:
|
|RH 5.1
|2.2.1
|kernel source in /usr/src/linux
|ppp source being compiled from /usr/local/src/ppp-2.3.5
|    (from here did ./configure, make kernel, make)
|
|Sorry for the length of the following, but I get this during the make:
|
|[root@logan ppp-2.3.5]# make
|cd chat; make  all
|make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/ppp-2.3.5/chat'
|make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
|make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/ppp-2.3.5/chat'
|cd pppd; make  all
|make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/ppp-2.3.5/pppd'
|cc -O2 -pipe -Wall -g -D_linux_=1 -DHAVE_PATHS_H -DIPX_CHANGE
|-I../include -DCHAPMS=1 -DUSE_CRYPT=1 -DHAVE_CRYPT_H=1 -DHAS_SHADOW   -c
|sys-linux.c -o sys-linux.o
|In file included from sys-linux.c:68:
|.../include/linux/ppp_defs.h:97: parse error before `ext_accm'
|.../include/linux/ppp_defs.h:97: warning: data definition has no type or
|storage class

Here is what I have for ppp-2.3.5 and the 2.1.131 kernel.  I would expect
to be able to apply identical reasoning to that shown below for the 2.2.1
kernel.

In /usr/include/linux/ppp_defs.h, line 97 is

typedef __u32           ext_accm[8];

so __32 is not defined as a data type for you but it is for me.  What
follows is the sequence of steps that lead to where the data type __32 is
defined for me.  It's likely that for you there is a step somewhere in
this sequence in which something is missing.

In ppp-2.3.5/pppd/sys-linux.c, line 67 is
  #include <linux/types.h>

In /usr/include/linux/types.h, line 5 is
  #include <asm/types.h>

In /usr/include/asm/types.h, line 18 is
  typedef unsigned int __u32;

which defines the data type __u32.


Find the missing step(s), fill it(them) in, and this error should be no
more.  You also may then be able to banish, in a similar manner, any other
errors that were not generated by the missing data type.  Perhaps even
before recompiling. 

One thing that might cause this are missing symbolic links: 
  /usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/
  /usr/include/asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/,

and,just to complete the list of kernel-related links that should exist,
  /usr/include/scsi -> /usr/src/linux/include/scsi/

Another thing that might cause them is a missing include define, say, no
  #include <asm/types.h>

in /usr/include/linux/types.h

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Clifford Kite                                               Not a guru. (tm)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                           Not even close.


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