3.7-rc-1 Release Causing application failure for compilation

[Prabhakar Lad]

Hi Baruch,

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
> Hello Prabhakar Lad,
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:49:34PM +0530, Prabhakar Lad wrote:
>> I have updated to 3.7-rc1 kernel version with latest head with
>> commit-id 43c422eda99b894f18d1cca17bcd2401efaf7bd0
>> but when I try to cross compile the Application I am getting following errors.
>>
>> /home/plad/ti/linus/linus/include/linux/types.h:14:26: error:
>> conflicting types for 'fd_set'
>> /home/plad/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/../arm-none-linux-gnueabi/libc/usr/include/sys/select.h:78:5:
>> note: previous declaration of 'fd_set' was here
>> /home/plad/ti/linus/linus/include/linux/types.h:15:25: error:
>
> [snip]
>
>> I use the codesourcery toolchain for cross compiling the applications
>> for ARM. The same compiler is used to  build the uImage for ARM, but
>> when I try building the apps I see this issue. Can any help me out in
>> fixing this.
>
> It seems that you are including kernel headers directly in your userspace
> code. Don't do that. Types defined in kernel headers conflict with types
> defined in your toolchain's kernel headers. Instead, just use the headers that
> are part of your toolchain, which in turn include kernel headers that your
> toolchain was built with.
>
Thanks for the reply, got it fixed :)

Regards,
--Prabhakar Lad

> baruch
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