Bug 68400 – madwifi-driver fails to build with gcc-3.4

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description David Brigada 2004-10-21 07:37:42 UTC]

With gcc-3.4.2, madwifi-driver fails to build.  It builds fine when using a kernel that has been compiled with gcc-3.3.x.

I get the following error:
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019/work/net80211/ieee80211_wireless.o
/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019/work/net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c: In function `ieee80211_ioctl_iwsetup':
/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019/work/net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c:2182: error: assignment of read-only member `num_private_args'
make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019/work/net80211/ieee80211_wireless.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019/work/net80211] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-rc2-mm1'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20041019/work/net80211'
make: *** [all] Error 1

[Comment 1 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-10-22 11:55:20 UTC]

Added solar and horton to CC:

[Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) 2004-10-22 12:09:44 UTC]

We don't support -mm

Please close as INVALID

[Comment 3 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-10-22 12:13:26 UTC]

Closing as INVALID.

[Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-10-22 12:13:57 UTC]

I'm sorry - but we don't have the time to patch all portage ebuilds to work with the rapid changes of the -mm tree. When the change appears in a vanilla kernel or a gentoo kernel, the ebuilds will of course be fixed if needed.

[Comment 5 solar (RETIRED) 2004-10-22 12:42:53 UTC]

For those of you that insist on using -mm this patch may do the trick for you.
http://users.informatik.haw-hamburg.de/~gropp_v/madwifi-2.6.8-mm_and_later-040927.patch.bz2