Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755470Ab2JWOfS (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:35:18 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:63740 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751789Ab2JWOfQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:35:16 -0400 Message-ID: <5086AB0B.7070402@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:34:51 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dwiastika Peppy CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Kernel References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1501 Lines: 41 On 10/23/2012 04:32 AM, Dwiastika Peppy wrote: > Hai Justin. My name is Peppy > I wanna ask you about installing Linux Kernel 2.6.27 > I'm a newbie in Linux user > I got problem when installed Linux Kernel and this is the problem : > *scripts/unifdef.c:209: error: conflicting types for ?getline? > /usr/include/stdio.h:651: note: previous declaration of ?getline? was here > make[2]: *** [scripts/unifdef] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [__headers] Error 2 > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2* > > what should i do to solve this problem? > maybe you can help me.. > Thank you before Justin > > Best Regards, > > > Peppy from what I remember libc made the change then everything else had to be fixed. this commit is the commit which fixes it: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=d15bd1067b1fcb2b7250d22bc0c7c7fea0b759f7 but after thinking this over we probably should have done a get_line || getline(); so old and new can always be working for people using older kernels and in the event of bisecting. but then again we might have more of a bloated kernel if we did this approach to _every_ function definition rename in the kernel. anyway hope this helps with your build experience of the kernel. Justin P. Mattock -- 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/