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

[Al Chu]

Hey Levi,

It seems I hit the same errors as you did (after installing
linux/ipmi.h, which isn't installed by default on RHEL4).  The '__user'
#define seems to have issues.  

Anyways, I did a patch that seems to resolve the problem.  Could you try
it out?

diff -p -u -r1.83 configure.ac
--- configure.ac        30 Mar 2007 00:33:33 -0000      1.83
+++ configure.ac        25 Apr 2007 22:35:43 -0000
@@ -292,7 +292,17 @@ AC_HEADER_TIME
 AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([unistd.h fcntl.h getopt.h pthread.h])
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/types.h error.h sys/io.h asm/io.h])
-AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/ipmi.h sys/ipmi.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/ipmi_msgdefs.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/compiler.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/ipmi.h], [], [],
+[#ifdef HAVE_LINUX_IPMI_MSGDEFS_H
+ #include <linux/ipmi_msgdefs.h>
+ #endif
+ #ifdef HAVE_LINUX_COMPILER_H
+ #include <linux/compiler.h>
+ #endif
+])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/ipmi.h])

I've also committed to the 0.4.0 CVS and 0.3.0-stable branches if its
more convenient for you to just update from CVS.

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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