[ILUG] Compiling _anything_ useful under mandrake 7.0

[Lars Hecking]

> Now, here's my problem. When I try to compile
> the following progie:
> 
> #include <linux/cdrom.h>
> 
> int main(void)
> {
> 	printf("Hello World!\n");
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> for example, I get a few hundred errors
> about "cdrom.h: parse error in before u_char......"

 Does this surprise anyone? No.

 Your program doesn't need <linux/cdrom.h>, for one, but <stdio.h>.
 Secondly, <linux/cdrom.h> more than likely requires some other
 includes. <sys/types.h> is a good guess, but you may need others, too.