Re: PROBLEM: error due to conflicting types during build of kselftests

[Jeffrin Thalakkottoor]

anyway my current is gcc (Debian 7.3.0-16) 7.3.0

may be you can try ... make -C tools/testing/selftests 2> error.txt

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 5:08 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/20/2018 11:03 AM, Jeffrin Thalakkottoor wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> the following is the error found...
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> protection_keys.c:421:5: error: conflicting types for âpkey_setâ
>>  int pkey_set(int pkey, unsigned long rights, unsigned long flags)
>>      ^~~~~~~~
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> to reproduce this error...
>> make -C tools/testing/selftests
>
> Hi,
>
> I can't reproduce this problem.  What is your gcc --version?
>
> Thanks.
>
>> Details about software:
>>
>> Linux debian 4.17.0-rc1+ #1 SMP Thu Apr 19 18:59:45 IST 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> GNU Make             4.2.1
>> Binutils             2.30
>> Util-linux           2.31.1
>> Mount                2.31.1
>> Linux C Library      2.27
>> Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.27
>> readlink: missing operand
>> Try 'readlink --help' for more information.
>> Procps               3.3.14
>> Kbd                  2.0.4
>> Console-tools        2.0.4
>> Sh-utils             8.28
>> Udev                 238
>>
>
>
> --
> ~Randy



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