[linux-lvm] How to build LVM2 tools for 2.6?

[Luca Berra]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:12:43AM -0700, Charles Martin wrote:
>I'm running Linux 2.6.0 on a system that
>started life as Red Hat 9. I want to install
>the LVM2 tools (v2.0.8) so that I can resurrect
>my LVM disks.
>
>When I attempt to build the tools (./configure; make install),
>device/dev-io.c fails to compile, due to a missing definition
>of BLKGETSIZE64. Clearly, the compile needs to be looking
>at the headers in the 2.6.0 tree.
>
try this patch i stole from fedora :)
or use their rpm
L.

--- LVM2.2.00.08/lib/device/dev-io.c.blksize64	2003-12-02 19:00:00.347446473 -0500
+++ LVM2.2.00.08/lib/device/dev-io.c	2003-12-02 19:00:42.450641542 -0500
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
 #  undef WUNTRACED		/* Avoid redefinition */
 #  include <linux/fs.h>		/* For block ioctl definitions */
 #  define BLKSIZE_SHIFT SECTOR_SHIFT
+#ifndef BLKGETSIZE64
+#  define BLKGETSIZE64 _IOR(0x12,114,size_t)
+#endif /* BLKGETSIZE64 */
 #else
 #  include <sys/disk.h>
 #  define BLKBSZGET DKIOCGETBLOCKSIZE

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