> Looks like the cause is that isolib.h #include-s <asm/stat.h> from > linux-libc-dev which conflicts in namespace with sys/stat from glibc. > So in the spirit of > > aboot (1.0~pre20040408-2) unstable; urgency=low > > * Include userspace headers from lib/isolib.c instead of kernel > headers; this isn't kernel code anyway, and the kernel headers don't > work right on i386 the way they're being used. > > does this patch help?
The patch may be sufficient to get aboot building on most architectures (which, I guess, would address the RC nature of this bug since Alpha is not a release arch), but my recent test of building aboot on an Alpha suggests that there are a lot more fixes required to get this package building fully again on Alpha (the architecture aboot is intended for). Also upstream is pretty much unresponsive and has apparently forgotten the password to the official sourceforge repo, so Matt Turner (Gentoo developer, who I have CCed) and I are planning to fork aboot so that we can give it some needed attention. For the purposes of this RC bug I guess I should try the patch on aboot, build it on a PC and see if that is capable of making a working boot disc for an Alpha. It may be a few days before I can do that. Cheers Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
