Re: [Freeipmi-devel] Configure/compile error in openipmi support

[Al Chu]

Hey Levi,

Hmmm.  I'm thinking there are two things I need to do.  

One is to not turn on OpenIPMI if you don't want it (some --with-
openipmi option or something).  

Two is to check ipmi.h correctly.  I'm guessing there is a pre-req
header w/ linux/ipmi.h that I'm not doing.  If I add that additional
check into autoconf, that should also fix your problem.

Could you send me your ipmi.h?  The line numbers in the errors below
don't match up with mine ipmi.h, so I'm not too sure what's being hit in
this circumstance.

Thanks,
Al

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 12:20 -0600, Levi Pearson wrote:
> In an attempt to build the FreeIPMI CVS trunk on a SuSE 9.3 (x86-64)
> with 2.9.6 kernel headers, we got some errors while it tried to build
> the openipmi support libraries.  Perhaps the openipmi support could be
> made a configure-level option?  Errors were as follows:
> 
> >From configure:
> 
> checking linux/ipmi.h usability... no
> checking linux/ipmi.h presence... yes
> configure: WARNING: linux/ipmi.h: present but cannot be compiled
> configure: WARNING: linux/ipmi.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
> configure: WARNING: linux/ipmi.h: see the Autoconf documentation
> configure: WARNING: linux/ipmi.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
> configure: WARNING: linux/ipmi.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
> configure: WARNING: linux/ipmi.h: in the future, the compiler will take 
> precedence
> configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------- ##
> configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to address@hidden ##
> configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------- ##
> checking for linux/ipmi.h... yes
> checking sys/ipmi.h usability... no
> checking sys/ipmi.h presence... no
> checking for sys/ipmi.h... no
> checking for program_invocation_short_name... yes
> checking for /dev/urandom... yes
> checking for /dev/random... yes
> 
> >From make:
> 
>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I./../include -I./../../common/src 
> -DIPMI_IPCKEY=\"/usr/local/var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey\" 
> -DIPMI_DEBUG_IPCKEY=\"../../libfreeipmi/src/ipmi-semaphores.h\" -D_GNU_SOURCE 
> -D_REENTRANT -Wall -g -O2 -MT libfreeipmi_la-ipmi-openipmi-api.lo -MD -MP -MF 
> .deps/libfreeipmi_la-ipmi-openipmi-api.Tpo -c ipmi-openipmi-api.c  -fPIC 
> -DPIC -o .libs/libfreeipmi_la-ipmi-openipmi-api.o
> In file included from ipmi-openipmi-api.c:58:
> /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:162: error: syntax error before '*' token
> /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:515: error: syntax error before '*' token
> /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:525: error: syntax error before '}' token
> /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:541: error: field `req' has incomplete type
> /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:566: error: syntax error before '*' token
> /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:587: error: syntax error before '}' token
> ipmi-openipmi-api.c: In function `_openipmi_write':
> ipmi-openipmi-api.c:341: error: storage size of `rq_packet' isn't known
> ipmi-openipmi-api.c:380: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an 
> incomplete type
> ipmi-openipmi-api.c:341: warning: unused variable `rq_packet'
> ipmi-openipmi-api.c: In function `_openipmi_read':
> ipmi-openipmi-api.c:396: error: storage size of `rs_packet' isn't known
> ipmi-openipmi-api.c:424: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an 
> incomplete type
> ipmi-openipmi-api.c:396: warning: unused variable `rs_packet'
> ipmi-openipmi-api.c: At top level:
> /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h:580: error: storage size of `msg' isn't known
> make[4]: *** [libfreeipmi_la-ipmi-openipmi-api.lo] Error 1
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Albert Chu
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