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

On 3/22/06, Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com&gt; 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.

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