2005-03-10 19:35:09

by Anil Kumar

Subject: driver compile parse errors for RHEL4

Hi,

I am getting parse errors when I try to build aic7xxx( Adaptec SCSI
controller) driver for RHEL4.
I am using my own build enviroment (I mean Makefiles, scripts) to build this.

#gcc -v
Reading specs from
/usr/adaptec/build/gcc343-32bit/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.3/specs
Configured with: ./configure --prefix=/usr/adaptec/build/gcc343-32bit
--enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --target=i386-redhat-linux
--host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu
--with-libs=/usr/adaptec/build/gcc343-32bit/lib
--with-headers=/usr/adaptec/build/gcc343-32bit/include
--enable-languages=c --disable-libunwind-exceptions --with-system-zlib
--enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-shared
--mandir=/usr/adaptec/build/gcc343-32bit/man
--infodir=/usr/adaptec/build/gcc343-32bit/info
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.3

The sources for the driver can be found under
/usr/src/linux/driver/scsi/aic7xxx when you download 2.6.9 kernel from
http://www.kernel.org.

The errors are as follows:

drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.c:23: error: parse error before '(' token
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.c:40: error: parse error before '(' token
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.c:57: error: parse error before '(' token
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.c:82: error: parse error before '(' token

Can you please let me know if my gcc is installed correctly, I mean if
I disable/enable any of the flags. If not I will look into my
Makefiles and scripts.

with regards,
Anil

2005-03-10 20:05:41

by Willy Tarreau

Subject: Re: driver compile parse errors for RHEL4

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:25:34AM -0800, Anil Kumar wrote:

> The errors are as follows:
>
> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.c:23: error: parse error before '(' token
> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.c:40: error: parse error before '(' token
> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.c:57: error: parse error before '(' token
> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.c:82: error: parse error before '(' token
>

It looks like some trouble I encountered recently when porting old programs
to gcc-3, which was caused by abusive use of '##' in macros. The error even
changed when I inserted a space before the opening parenthesis !

> Can you please let me know if my gcc is installed correctly, I mean if
> I disable/enable any of the flags. If not I will look into my
> Makefiles and scripts.

You should have started from here, otherwise I guess you will not receive
many responses.

Willy