On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:57:56AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > >Hi list! > > > > > >I was trying to backport libcups2-dev from lenny to etch when I met > > >with the following error (from config.log) > > > > > <snip> > > >/usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: error: linux/limits.h: No such file > > >or directory > > > > <snip> > > > > > >How do I get around this? > > > > > >I did try to build cups again after having installed > > >linux-headers-2.6.18-6-486, since linux/limit.h exist in that package, > > >but that didn't help :-( > > > > > > > What error did you get then? Because limits.h then existed. > > I got the same error. Which made me think, that I had to help the > build process to find linux/limit.h. Even though I have read for quite > some time ago, that in debian you should need to tamper with symlinks > for kernel-headers, I did just that. > > # cd /usr/include/linux > # ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-6-486/include/linux/limits.h > > Tried to build again, and this time the build process got longer and > bailed out with an other error: > > Making all in cups... > make[2]: Entering directory `/root/cups-1.3.8/cups' > Compiling adminutil.c... > In file included from /usr/include/sys/socket.h:35, > from http.h:43, > from ipp.h:26, > from cups.h:32, > from adminutil.h:29, > from adminutil.c:36: > /usr/include/bits/socket.h:304:24: error: asm/socket.h: No such file or > directory > In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36, > from adminutil.c:39: > /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25:26: error: linux/errno.h: No such file or > directory > In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:333, > from /usr/include/sys/wait.h:30, > from adminutil.c:45: > /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28:29: error: asm/sigcontext.h: No such file > or directory > make[2]: *** [adminutil.o] Error 1 > > This time asm/socket.h is not on my system, but many very similar files do > exist here: > > $ find /usr/include -iname socket.h > /usr/include/bits/socket.h > /usr/include/sys/socket.h > /usr/include/asm-i486/socket.h > /usr/include/asm-x86_64/socket.h > > but not asm/socket.h > > Rather than continuing to manually hack around each the compilation > path/problem, I would like to understand what is wrong with my system. > > -- > Note that I use Debian version 4.0 > Linux amin 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i586 GNU/Linux > Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GPG Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFI9I1sfCyHKnBQYU4RAs90AJ4rUQWuylI0aF4JXVxoZHbqHYCvSgCfbYST > သ岿䣨ⳤ爣콘�= > =jRHx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Do you have the kernel source (for your particular version) installed?
