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Bug 240964 - sys-apps/busybox-1.11.1 fails to compile because inotify.h is missing (linux-headers too old)
Summary: sys-apps/busybox-1.11.1 fails to compile because inotify.h is missing (linux-...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Embedded Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2008-10-10 06:19 UTC by Thomas Stein
Modified: 2008-10-27 10:34 UTC (History)
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Description Thomas Stein 2008-10-10 06:19:16 UTC
Hello.

Tried to build busybox-1.11.1 but the following error occured. This file is indeed missing in linux-headers-2.6.11 which i had installed. Upgrading linux-headers solved this problem.

miscutils/inotifyd.c:31:27: linux/inotify.h: No such file or directory           
miscutils/inotifyd.c: In function `inotifyd_main':                               
miscutils/inotifyd.c:61: error: `IN_ALL_EVENTS' undeclared (first use in this function)                                                                           
miscutils/inotifyd.c:61: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
miscutils/inotifyd.c:61: error: for each function it appears in.)                
miscutils/inotifyd.c:129: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type        
miscutils/inotifyd.c:139: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type        
miscutils/inotifyd.c:140: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type        
miscutils/inotifyd.c:140: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type        
miscutils/inotifyd.c:143: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to incomplete type `inotify_event'                                                               
miscutils/inotifyd.c:143: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type        
make[1]: *** [miscutils/inotifyd.o] Error 1                                      
make: *** [miscutils] Error 2 

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-11 05:38:38 UTC
Wow, linux-headers-2.6.11 is just a _bit_ old... however I know embedded systems tend to move more slowly, so I'll let the embedded team decide if they want to make the dependency on non-ancient headers explicit. At worst they will decide to skip it, but anyone else who uses a similarly old build system with new busybox ebuilds can find this bug to know getting modern headers is the solution. So, thanks for the report even if the ebuild doesn't get changed :)
Comment 2 Ming-Wei 2008-10-21 10:29:03 UTC
This is from a clean install (stage1) x86 uclibc:

i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc-gcc -Os -mtune=i386 -pipe -Wall -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wunused -Wunused-parameter -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wold-style-definition -fno-builtin-strlen -finline-limit=0 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-guess-branch-probability -funsigned-char -static-libgcc -Wl,-O1 -o busybox_unstripped -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--sort-section,alignment -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--start-group applets/built-in.o archival/lib.a archival/libunarchive/lib.a console-tools/lib.a coreutils/lib.a coreutils/libcoreutils/lib.a debianutils/lib.a e2fsprogs/lib.a editors/lib.a findutils/lib.a init/lib.a libbb/lib.a libpwdgrp/lib.a loginutils/lib.a miscutils/lib.a modutils/lib.a networking/lib.a networking/libiproute/lib.a networking/udhcp/lib.a printutils/lib.a procps/lib.a runit/lib.a selinux/lib.a shell/lib.a sysklogd/lib.a util-linux/lib.a util-linux/volume_id/lib.a archival/built-in.o archival/libunarchive/built-in.o console-tools/built-in.o coreutils/built-in.o coreutils/libcoreutils/built-in.o debianutils/built-in.o e2fsprogs/built-in.o editors/built-in.o findutils/built-in.o init/built-in.o libbb/built-in.o libpwdgrp/built-in.o loginutils/built-in.o miscutils/built-in.o modutils/built-in.o networking/built-in.o networking/libiproute/built-in.o networking/udhcp/built-in.o printutils/built-in.o procps/built-in.o runit/built-in.o selinux/built-in.o shell/built-in.o sysklogd/built-in.o util-linux/built-in.o util-linux/volume_id/built-in.o -Wl,--end-group -Wl,--start-group -lcrypt -lm -Wl,--end-group
==========
miscutils/lib.a(inotifyd.o): In function `inotifyd_main':
inotifyd.c:(.text.inotifyd_main+0x43): undefined reference to `inotify_init'
inotifyd.c:(.text.inotifyd_main+0xae): undefined reference to `inotify_add_watch'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [busybox_unstripped] Error 1
Comment 3 Deniss Gaplevsky 2008-10-22 10:06:08 UTC
same on 
Linux mail 2.6.20-hardened-r6.minigentoo.32.20070808 #1 SMP Fri Aug 10 11:07:06 EEST 2007 i686
i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6
sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.23-r3
:

  LINK    busybox_unstripped
Trying libraries: crypt m pam pam_misc
Failed: -Wl,--start-group -lcrypt -lm -lpam -lpam_misc -Wl,--end-group
Output of:
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wunused -Wunused-parameter -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fno-builtin-strlen -finline-limit=0 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-guess-branch-probability -funsigned-char -static-libgcc -o busybox_unstripped -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--sort-section,alignment -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--start-group applets/built-in.o archival/lib.a archival/libunarchive/lib.a console-tools/lib.a coreutils/lib.a coreutils/libcoreutils/lib.a debianutils/lib.a e2fsprogs/lib.a editors/lib.a findutils/lib.a init/lib.a libbb/lib.a libpwdgrp/lib.a loginutils/lib.a miscutils/lib.a modutils/lib.a networking/lib.a networking/libiproute/lib.a networking/udhcp/lib.a printutils/lib.a procps/lib.a runit/lib.a selinux/lib.a shell/lib.a sysklogd/lib.a util-linux/lib.a util-linux/volume_id/lib.a archival/built-in.o archival/libunarchive/built-in.o console-tools/built-in.o coreutils/built-in.o coreutils/libcoreutils/built-in.o debianutils/built-in.o e2fsprogs/built-in.o editors/built-in.o findutils/built-in.o init/built-in.o libbb/built-in.o libpwdgrp/built-in.o loginutils/built-in.o miscutils/built-in.o modutils/built-in.o networking/built-in.o networking/libiproute/built-in.o networking/udhcp/built-in.o printutils/built-in.o procps/built-in.o runit/built-in.o selinux/built-in.o shell/built-in.o sysklogd/built-in.o util-linux/built-in.o util-linux/volume_id/built-in.o -Wl,--end-group -Wl,--start-group -lcrypt -lm -lpam -lpam_misc -Wl,--end-group
==========
miscutils/lib.a(inotifyd.o): In function `inotifyd_main':
inotifyd.c:(.text.inotifyd_main+0x80): undefined reference to `inotify_init'
inotifyd.c:(.text.inotifyd_main+0x1c2): undefined reference to `inotify_add_watch'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [busybox_unstripped] Error 1
Comment 4 Florian Lahr 2008-10-23 12:39:40 UTC
Same problem here, emerge --info output:

Portage 2.1.4.5 (uclibc/x86/hardened, gcc-3.4.6, uclibc-0.9.28.3-r3, 2.6.25-hardened-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.25-hardened-r8 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:30:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i586-gentoo-linux-uclibc"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fforce-addr"
CHOST="i586-gentoo-linux-uclibc"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fforce-addr"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks metadata-transfer nodoc noinfo noman sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="cracklib crypt hardened mudflap ncurses openmp pcre perl pic python readline session ssl tcpd uclibc x86 zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="uclibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev v4l"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

It happens after an emerge --update --deep --newuse world. stage3/x86/2008.0/uclibc/hardened has been used. Currently it is an a changeroot environment of a VMware machine. The only thing which was modified so far is the make.conf: 

# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example.
CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fforce-addr"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fforce-addr"
# LDFLAGS is unsupported.  USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
# WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly.
# Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing.
CHOST="i586-gentoo-linux-uclibc"
FEATURES="ccache buildpkg"
UCLIBC_CPU="586"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
USE="-cli -dri -midi -minimal -reflection -spl -xorg"
Comment 6 Florian Lahr 2008-10-27 10:34:21 UTC
Works for me now. Thanks!