Compiling HAL 0.5.8 and BLKGETSIZE problems

[Gabriel C]

Eugéne Suter schrieb:
> Thanks for the fast reply,
>
> I installed unifdef, and then ran the command you gave me.
> Then I ran the configure again, but it looks like something is even worse
> now:
>
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
> checking for library containing strerror... none required
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed
> checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed
> checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
>   

you sure the headers are installed ? check /usr/include/asm*/* and
/usr/include/linux/*
and also see config.log. It will tell you what is missing.


> This never happened in the previous attempts to configure the source.
>   

Yes because the error is about missing 'kernel-headers' :)

> Thanks again,
>
> Eugéne
>
>   

Gabriel