[Crash-utility] Error when compiling crash-4.0-2.21

[Nguyen Anh Quynh]

On 3/22/06, Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Anh Quynh wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to compile crash-4.0-2.21 on my x86 box. I am running
> > Ubuntu 5.10, with gcc 4.0.2. I grabbed crash from
> > http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash-4.0-2.21.tar.gz, untar it and
> > inside the newly created crash-4.0-2.21 directory, I compiled it with
> > "make". But there is a problem, see below. How could I fix it?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Q
> >
> > ^^^^
> > $make
> > ......
> > ......
> > ar: creating libgdb.a
> > ranlib libgdb.a
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 build_data.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 main.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 tools.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 global_data.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 memory.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 filesys.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DGDB_6_1 help.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DGDB_6_1 task.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DGDB_6_1 kernel.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 test.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DGDB_6_1 gdb_interface.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 net.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 dev.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DGDB_6_1 alpha.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DMCLX x86.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 ppc.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 ia64.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 s390.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 s390x.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 ppc64.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 x86_64.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 extensions.c
> > cc -c -g -DX86 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 va_server.c
> > va_server.c:60: error: initializer element is not constant
> > make[4]: *** [va_server.o] Error 1
> > make[3]: *** [gdb] Error 2
> > make[2]: *** [all-gdb] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** [gdb_merge] Error 2
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
>
> It's this remnant of the ancient "mcore" dumpfile format handling code
> in va_server.c:
>
>   int Page_Size = PAGE_SIZE;  /* temporary setting until disk header is read */
>

that is always annoying because Linux distros have no common file
headers. the problem is that in my Ubuntu box, PAGE_SIZE is defined as
a function, like this:


#define PAGE_SIZE ((unsigned long)getpagesize())


obviously you guys run FC/Redhat, which has a different file header,
so you have no such a problem.

thanks,
Quynh