Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751557AbXFUXwZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:52:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754819AbXFUXvr (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:51:47 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:37540 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754771AbXFUXvq (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:51:46 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux Kernel include files From: Arjan van de Ven To: Joerg Schilling Cc: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <467afc63.OnsqEXOk5zqMYzym%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <467afc63.OnsqEXOk5zqMYzym%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:47:58 -0700 Message-Id: <1182469678.2704.16.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 (2.10.2-2.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1173 Lines: 29 > Cdrtools ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ offer support for an OS > dependent SCSI transport. Cdrtools cannot be compiled wihout support for SCSI > transport, so it is impossible to use Sun Studio to compile cdrtools. > > Why does this happen? > > Well, the reason is that in order to support Linux specific features, you need > to include Linux specific include files (the Linux kernel include files). I assume you typoed and meant "cleaned up kernel include files as installed by make headers_install" instead. > As > these include files are currently not written in vanilla (ANSI) C but in a > GCC-C-variant, other compilers do not like these include files. can you give a specific example of a header installed by make headers_install that breaks this way and is hurting you? Because it may well be possible to fix the problems, now that we have this special cleanup phase since several releases.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/