xorg-server-1.5.1fails to compile with linux-libc-headers-2.6.11.2and gcc 3.4.3

Jeremy Henty onepoint at starurchin.org
Thu Jan 15 06:29:52 PST 2009


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:22:29PM +0200, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> Angel Tsankov wrote:

> Any ideas why this happens?  Could it be linux-libc-headers or glibc
> being too old to build xorg-server 1.5.1 or is it something else?

Quite possibly.   I had similar problems  in this past.   What is your
system.  If you're still on gcc-3.4.3 I'm guessing it's quite old?

In fact,  isn't linux-libc-headers itself obsolete?   Doesn't a modern
Linux install sanitised headers of its own?

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty



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