[OpenAFS-devel] problems compiling openafs modules on Debian linux

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Paul E Rybski wrote:

> HI Derrick,
> 	I'll check out the patch and see how well that works.  It also
> turns out that I was slighly mistaken with the version of openafs that I
> was having the signal.h problem with.  It turns out that 1.3.50 doesn't
> have that problem but 1.2.10 does.  I was using openafs 1.2.10 because the
> modules came as a nice debian source package that would be built into a
> .deb file and that's the version that I'd like to use if possible. Both
> versions have the mach_apicdef.h problem, however.

Indeed, that's the one the fix I mentioned is for.

> From 1.2.10's config.log, here's what seems to be the problem:
>
> configure:4866: checking for signal.h
> configure:4876: gcc-2.95 -E  conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> In file included from /usr/include/asm/sigcontext.h:4,
>                  from /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28,
>                  from /usr/include/signal.h:326,
>                  from configure:4872:
> /usr/include/linux/compiler.h:17: warning: `__attribute_used__' redefined
> /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:195: warning: this is the location of the
> previous definition
> configure: failed program was:
> #line 4871 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> #include <signal.h>

That's "special". I wonder what we're defining that's including some
section of header in 1.2.10 and not 1.3.50