Oh, tar -tbzf was a typo, of course, I meant tvzf.
Lawson
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On Wed, 12 May 1999, Brian Geisel wrote:
> Greetings,
> I've been compiling some programs for quite some time that have
had
> problems with one of the kernel header files, genhd.h. They use the
> partition structure which used to look like this:
>
> struct partition { yada yada } __((packed))__;
>
> and the compiler freaked out and had (I think) a parse error before the
;.
> Now the new versions (of the kernel) have replaced the __((packed))__
with
> ((packed)). I get multiply defined symbol 'packed' in every source
file
> that includes that file. Can anyone tell me what's going on. What is
gcc
> trying to do, and why might it not be doing it.
>
> I am using 2.8.1, but was having similar if not identical problems with
> 2.7.2.3.
>
> TIA
>
> geisel
>
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