Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 00:39:09 +0900 | From | Bruce Harada <> | Subject | 2.2.0-preXX compile errors solved |
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I was getting compile errors for 2.2.20-pre11 on a Slackware 3.6 box. Since the errors involved undefined symbols and unmatched struct definitions, I made the silly assumption that I was missing a header file somewhere.
After looking at it a bit more carefully and repatching, I finally noticed that patch was failing partway through... :(
The problem goes back to 2.2.20-pre4, where the following appears in the section of the patch relating to arch/ppc/kernel/openpic.c:
-#endif /* CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK */ \ No newline at end of file +#endif /* CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK */
It would appear that later versions of diff output the "\ No newline..." line when they find a file that has, surprise surprise, no newline at the end. What I failed to realise was that older versions of patch (in my case, 2.1b) choke on this kind of thing with a malformed patch error. I tried a later version (2.5), which copes with it quite happily.
While I realise that the answer will most likely be "Upgrade your userland!", it might be a good idea to consider filtering these lines out for the 2.2 series, since it's more likely to be run on older boxes.
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