OThe kernel headers in /usr/include/linux are supposed to be a copy of the headers used to compile glibc. I recompiled gilbc with mm-sources (kernel 2.5.70-mm5), so I moved the includes over to /usr/include/linux. Gentoo does not like this. But that's another story. This story is about compiling XFree 4.3.0 after I did this. Compilation fails in compiling the keyboard IO, because the new kernel keboard-repeat structure renamed the element "rate" to "period". Because it's a time between repeats in milliseconds, so it isn't a "rate". This pedantic "fix" breaks XFree: lnx_io.c: In function `KDKBDREP_ioctl_ok': lnx_io.c:90: error: structure has no member named `rate' lnx_io.c:98: error: structure has no member named `rate' lnx_io.c:100: error: structure has no member named `rate' lnx_io.c:101: error: structure has no member named `rate' lnx_io.c:102: error: structure has no member named `rate' make[6]: *** [lnx_io.o] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r3/work/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux' The change is very easy to make to the XFree sources, but I preferred to hack the /usr/include/linux/kd.h: struct kbd_repeat { int delay; /* in msec; <= 0: don't change */ +#ifdef X_H + int rate; +#else int period; /* in msec; <= 0: don't change */ /* earlier this field was misnamed "rate" */ #endif }; [grr... dogbert growling sound....] (interesting is that this was the only problem I had. Pentium3 with GCC3.3)
This is FIXED in most-recent release: XFree-4.3.99.11! When new xfree package is unmasked, this bug should close.
A rough estimate for that release is a year. I'll look through commits to see if I can find the specific one and backport it.
/usr/include/linux/kd.h: struct kbd_repeat { int delay; /* in msec; <= 0: don't change */ +#ifdef X_H + int rate; +#else int period; /* in msec; <= 0: don't change */ /* earlier this field was misnamed "rate" */ #endif }; This is no longer present in XFree-4.3.99.12.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17345 ***
