[ILUG] Compiling _anything_ useful under mandrake 7.0

[Sean McGrath]

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>> for example, I get a few hundred errors
>> about "cdrom.h: parse error in before u_char......"
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> Does this surprise anyone? No.
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> 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.

   other issue, where is /usr/include/linux linked to ?
   if its not the running kernel source tree you'll get more errors..
   eg: you have 2.2.14, so the link should read:

   [/usr/include]$ ls -l linux
      linux -> /usr/src/linux.2.2.14/include/linux
 
  may help...


Sean.
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