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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Troubles compiling lilo v3
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.152402.1541@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 15:24:02 GMT
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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- In article <1992Aug14.024317.19775@inmet.camb.inmet.com>, newbie@dylan.camb.inmet.com (Chris Newbold) writes:
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- | Anyhow, I'm having major trouble compiling it. There is a massive conflicy
- | between the linux/include types.h and the include/sys/types.h ... I'm sure
- | all of this was covered... If someone would be kind enough to point me
- | in the right direction, I would really appriciate it.
- |
- | The problems: Both /usr/src/linux/include/linux/types.h and /usr/include/sys
- | /types.h get included. I tried to fix this by linking /usr/include/sys
- | to /usr/src/linux/include/linux. This seems like a hack, but I don't really
- | know. Didn't reall help.
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- I think you are hitting one of the real problems at this time, you
- need different includes for a lot of stuff, and if everyone would get to
- a common set of headers life would be a lot nicer, and development might
- go a bit faster.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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