Re: bug in include file!?

[Bill Davidsen]

csg69@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Dear Linux Kernel Stuff!
>
>
> I encountered a strange error recently, when I tried to
> compile cdrtools-2.00.3 on my system (debian woody 3.0,
> kernel 2.6.5, gcc 2.95.4, make 3.79.1).
>
> The bug is in line 217 in /usr/src/linux/include/scsi/scsi.h
> gcc says: parse error before u8
> (I think everything is OK there)
>
> Finally I solved the problem by changing the value
> in cdrtools-2.00.3/DEFAULTS/Defaults.linux
>
> from the original:
> DEFINCDIRS=	$(SRCROOT)/include /usr/src/linux/include
>
> to:
> DEFINCDIRS=	$(SRCROOT)/include /usr/include
>
>
> It seems that in /usr/include/scsi/scsi.h everything is OK...
>
>
> It may be the error of the makefiles or the kernel include files...
>
> Joerg Schilling (schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) advised me
> to send to you this report.
> He thinks this is a bug in kernel include files.

I believe he has set this up so that it won't compile correctly unless 
you have a source tree at /usr/src/linux, and then he uses the includes 
there. He has ignored being told this is not the proper way to do things.

It may be an unrelated problem, but I think he regards ever case where 
the kernel people didn't do things for his convenience as a bug, and 
writes his code to cause problems if you don't do it his way.

If you do audio burns it's worth fighting, they use DMA with the ATA: 
interface. For data the last time I used ide-scsi it was working again, 
although it's not the preferred way to operate. YMMV.

--
   -bill davidsen (davidsen@xxxxxxx)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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