On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:01:09AM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 19:46, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, it should not at least. I will investigate and see if the > > linux/fs.h is where it comes from or not. I was not able to find where > > the size_t was defined though. > > This block of definitions in libparted/linux.c looks kind of > suspicious. Particularly the last line: > > /* from <linux/fs.h> */ > #define BLKRRPART _IO(0x12,95) /* re-read partition table */ > #define BLKGETSIZE _IO(0x12,96) /* return device size */ > #define BLKFLSBUF _IO(0x12,97) /* flush buffer cache */ > #define BLKSSZGET _IO(0x12,104) /* get block device sector size */ > #define BLKGETLASTSECT _IO(0x12,108) /* get last sector of block device > */ > #define BLKSETLASTSECT _IO(0x12,109) /* set last sector of block device > */ > #define BLKGETSIZE64 _IOR(0x12,114,sizeof(uint64_t)) /* return device > size in bytes (u64 *arg) */
Ok, changing the sizeof(uint64_t) to size_t fixes one of the problem, still the warning concerning the signed/unsigned comparison of __invalid_size_argument_for_IOC and sizeof(size_t) persists, and since dpkg-buildpackage will die on such warnings, i still cannot build the package. I have cloned the bug report, assigning the one above to parted, which i will soon fix in an NMU, and assigning the one about signed/unsigned to linux-kernel-headers. I have looked at the last 2 month of lkml archives, and the consensus there seems to be to change the int definition of __invalid_size_argument_for_IOC to unsigned int, not sure though. I also did find a post of a guy having build problems of debian stuff about exactly this for a bunch of packages, so it is not just me. I hope to have helped solve this thing, and again, sorry for not having noticed the above defines in linux.c and thanks for the help in this. I have also mailed the parted mailing list about this problem. BTW, forwarding to [email protected], as i don't know if it will reach you now that i have reassigned the bug to parted, and not sure i did the bug cloning right. Friendly, Sven Luther
