Re: Another compile problem with 2.6.15.5 on AMD64

[Steffen Weber <email@steffenweber.net>]

Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 3/2/06, Steffen Weber <email@steffenweber.net> wrote:
> > Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > On Thursday 02 March 2006 17:18, Steffen Weber wrote:
> > > > I´m getting a compile error with 2.6.15.5 on x86_64 using GCC 3.4.4
> > > > (does not seem to be related to the NFS one):
> > > >
> > > >    CC      mm/mempolicy.o
> > > > mm/mempolicy.c: In function `get_nodes':
> > > > mm/mempolicy.c:527: error: `BITS_PER_BYTE' undeclared (first use in
> > > > this function)
> > > > mm/mempolicy.c:527: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
> > > > once
> > > > mm/mempolicy.c:527: error: for each function it appears in.)
> > > Try the following (untested patch).
> > Thanks for your reply, but this patch does not solve the problem (same
> > error message). I´ve appended my .config in case that might help.
>
> Hmm, types.h contains the
>
> #define BITS_PER_BYTE 8
>
> that mmpolicy.c needs, so including that header should do the trick... odd..
> I'll look at the code a bit more.
There is no BITS_PER_BYTE in include/types.h. I´ve grepped through the 
kernel source (2.6.15 and 2.6.15.5) and found that BITS_PER_BYTE is 
defined only in arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_cat.c

Steffen
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