Re: 2.3.14 continues to break perl with libc5 (or does 2.3.14 refuse to
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:09:26 +0100 (BST)
> the following 2 line c program still doesn't compile with libc5 and 2.3.14
> cat qq.c
> #include <sys/msg.h>
> long infosize = sizeof(struct msqid_ds);
>
> gcc -c qq.c
> In file included from /usr/include/sys/msg.h:7,
> from qq.c:1:
> /usr/include/linux/msg.h:22: parse error before `wait_queue_head_t'
> /usr/include/linux/msg.h:22: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
> /usr/include/linux/msg.h:23: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> /usr/include/linux/msg.h:29: parse error before `}'
> qq.c:2: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
The message queue code was changed by someone without realising the damage
done I suspect. It is actually far worse than not compiling. Existing programs
using message queues do not work on 2.3.x either because a structure copied
into the end users program has totally changed size/layout.
Alan
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