Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Szalata, Zenon M." <[email protected]> · Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:22:26 -0700

I am having trouble building linux-gpibon on a RedHat enterpise linux 3 computer with kernel 2.4.21-51.EL.  The version of linux-gpib is 3.1.101.
These are the steps I took:
1. installed kernel sourses from a RPM in a standard location, that is
   in /usr/src.
2. cp /boot/config-2.4.21-51.EL /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL/.config
3. cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL
4. make oldconfig
5. make dep
6. cd <linux-gpib>
7. ./configure
These seven steps were done as root.  Next step is the one which fails and is done as a workstation user:
8. cd <linux-gpib>
9. make
The make fails, here is some of the output it generates:

--- skipping successful output ----
....

gmake[5]: Entering directory `/afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/esa/esalib/app/epics/support/linux-gpib-3.1.101/driver/cb7210'
gcc -I/afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/esa/esalib/app/epics/support/linux-gpib-3.1.101 -I/afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/esa/esalib/app/epics/support/linux-gpib-3.1.101/driver/include -I/afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/esa/esalib/app/epics/support/linux-gpib-3.1.101/include -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common  -Wno-unused -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -freorder-blocks -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL/include/linux/modversions.h  -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=cb7210_init  -c -o cb7210_init.o cb7210_init.c
In file included from /afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/esa/esalib/app/epics/support/linux-gpib-3.1.101/driver/include/nec7210.h:23,
                 from cb7210.h:22,
                 from cb7210_init.c:21:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL/include/linux/string.h:15: invalid suffix on integer constant
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL/include/linux/string.h:15: syntax error before numeric constant
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL/include/linux/string.h:15: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL/include/linux/string.h:16: invalid suffix on integer constant
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL/include/linux/string.h:16: syntax error before numeric constant
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL/include/linux/string.h:16: `strpbrk_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL/include/linux/string.h:16: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL/include/linux/string.h:17: `strtok_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL/include/linux/string.h:17: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration

....
Many more warning messages and finally an error:

cb7210_init.c: In function `cb7210_init':
cb7210_init.c:329: warning: implicit declaration of function `printk_R1b7d4074'
cb7210_init.c: In function `cb_pci_attach':
cb7210_init.c:375: warning: implicit declaration of function `request_irq_R0c60f2e0'
cb7210_init.c: In function `cb_pci_detach':
cb7210_init.c:405: warning: implicit declaration of function `free_irq_Rf20dabd8'
cb7210_init.c: In function `cb_isa_attach':
cb7210_init.c:427: warning: implicit declaration of function `__request_region_R1a1a4f09'
cb7210_init.c:427: `ioport_resource_R865ebccd' undeclared (first use in this function)
cb7210_init.c: In function `cb_isa_detach':
cb7210_init.c:467: warning: implicit declaration of function `__release_region_Rd49501d4'
cb7210_init.c:467: `ioport_resource_R865ebccd' undeclared (first use in this function)
gmake[5]: *** [cb7210_init.o] Error 1
gmake[5]: Leaving directory `/afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/esa/esalib/app/epics/support/linux-gpib-3.1.101/driver/cb7210'
gmake[4]: *** [_mod_/afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/esa/esalib/app/epics/support/linux-gpib-3.1.101/driver/cb7210] Error 2
gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-51.EL'
gmake[3]: *** [all-local] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/esa/esalib/app/epics/support/linux-gpib-3.1.101/driver'
gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/esa/esalib/app/epics/support/linux-gpib-3.1.101/driver'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/esa/esalib/app/epics/support/linux-gpib-3.1.101'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
zms@esaux1 $ exit
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Does anyone have an idea what am I doing wrong?  What's missing?  Suggestions?  Should I try an earlier version of linux gpib?
Thanks in advance.

Zen

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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