>=2.5.66 compiling errors on Alpha

Hi,

i don't know if it a known issue but perhaps this helps to find out.
i was able to compile 2.5.65 with gcc version 2.95.4 on an Alpha EV45/Avtanti and it is running quite stable.

but compiling a 2.5.66 or 2.5.67 fails with gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030309 :

(before patching i always do "make clean". patches applied with no errors. same config used.)

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lila:/usr/src/linux-2.5.x# export LANG=C
lila:/usr/src/linux-2.5.x# make vmlinux
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=arch/alpha/kernel arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.s
make[1]: `arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
  Starting the build. KBUILD_BUILTIN=1 KBUILD_MODULES=
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=init
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=usr
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=arch/alpha/kernel
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=arch/alpha/mm
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=arch/alpha/math-emu
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=kernel
  gcc -Wp,-MD,kernel/.sys.o.d -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8 -msmall-data -mcpu=ev4 -Wa,-mev6 -fomit-frame-pointer -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=sys -DKBUILD_MODNAME=sys -c -o kernel/sys.o kernel/sys.c
kernel/sys.c:226: conflicting types for `sys_sendmsg'
include/linux/socket.h:245: previous declaration of `sys_sendmsg'
kernel/sys.c:227: conflicting types for `sys_recvmsg'
include/linux/socket.h:246: previous declaration of `sys_recvmsg'
make[1]: *** [kernel/sys.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel] Error 2
lila:/usr/src/linux-2.5.x#
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do you need further infos to debug this?
compiling a kernel on this machine is very slow, i think i can't take the "BUG-HUNTING" approach.

Thank you,
Christian.

The Alpha folks need to fix their definition of cond_syscall(). Copying over the asm-i386/*.h definition will probably "just work".

David S. Miller <[email protected]>

That won't work. There have been two (equivalent) patches posted to this list recently. Will someone pick them up?

Måns Rullgård
[email protected]

Måns> That won't work. There have been two (equivalent) patches Måns> posted to this list recently. Will someone pick them up?

Looks like Ivan Kokshaysky is opposed to this approach (see the discussion that happended on axp-list last week about the same patch I posted to both axp-list and lkml).

http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/axp-list/msg20606.html

Regards,

        M.

Places change, faces change. Life is so very strange.

It's strange that this is bad on Alpha, but ok for all other machines. Whatever the reason, it would be nice to have a fix in 2.5.68.

Måns Rullgård
[email protected]