On Wed Nov 22, 2000 at 01:00:38AM +0300, Michael Sobolev wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:11:38PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Tue Nov 21, 2000 at 10:49:43PM +0300, Michael Sobolev wrote:
> > > Subject asks it all. :) I have problems compiling dbootstrap
> > > on a woody system... These may be caused by libc stuff...
> > >
> > > In file included from losetup.c:16:
> > > /usr/include/linux/loop.h:62: #error "Wrong dev_t in loop.h"
> >
> > Argh.
> Agree. :)
>
> > You have modified your system such that /usr/include/linux is no longer a
> > directory containing the kernel headers that libc was compiled with. It is now
> > a symlink, most likely to /usr/src/linux/include/linux.
> >
> > To fix this problem, put /usr/include/linux back that way it was (this is most
> > easily done by doing an 'apt-get install --reinstall libc6 libc6-dev'
> I wish it were this way. This was the first thing I checked. :) No, this file
> (linux/loop.h) comes with libc6-dev package. BTW, I also checked util-linux
> source package (where mount comes from), and found that it contains some magic:
>
> +++ "loop.h" +++
> #include <linux/posix_types.h>
> #undef dev_t
> #define dev_t __kernel_dev_t
> #include <linux/loop.h>
> #undef dev_t
> --- "loop.h" ---
FYI, I just checked in this update to the header files, to be sure
that the correct dev_t is used for the loop stuff...
-Erik
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