[ILUG] Compiling _anything_ useful under mandrake 7.0

[Stephen Shirley]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> 
> Need to include <linux/types.h> _before_ <linux/cdrom.h>
>
 
Hmm - well this didn't actually solve the problem on my home system. So I
wrote the following test proggie to test out a theory

#include <linux/types.h> 

int main(void)
{
	u_char test='a';
	printf("Test = %c\n",test);
	return 0;
}

and I got the following error:
ste.c:5: `u_char' undeclared (first use in this function) 

So therefore i knew that it wasn't including the types.h
file properly, cause u_char is typedefed in it. 
Finally I discovered that the compiler was defining
__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES
somehow, which meant that the 

#ifndef __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES
//all declarations
#endif

where preventing u_char from being declared.
It seems that pgcc, which mandrake compiled
is a bit fucked up. I'm going to get egcs tonite
and use that instead.


Steve