anyway my current is gcc (Debian 7.3.0-16) 7.3.0 may be you can try ... make -C tools/testing/selftests 2> error.txt On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 5:08 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/20/2018 11:03 AM, Jeffrin Thalakkottoor wrote: >> hello, >> >> the following is the error found... >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> protection_keys.c:421:5: error: conflicting types for ‘pkey_set’ >> int pkey_set(int pkey, unsigned long rights, unsigned long flags) >> ^~~~~~~~ >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> to reproduce this error... >> make -C tools/testing/selftests > > Hi, > > I can't reproduce this problem. What is your gcc --version? > > Thanks. > >> Details about software: >> >> Linux debian 4.17.0-rc1+ #1 SMP Thu Apr 19 18:59:45 IST 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> GNU Make 4.2.1 >> Binutils 2.30 >> Util-linux 2.31.1 >> Mount 2.31.1 >> Linux C Library 2.27 >> Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.27 >> readlink: missing operand >> Try 'readlink --help' for more information. >> Procps 3.3.14 >> Kbd 2.0.4 >> Console-tools 2.0.4 >> Sh-utils 8.28 >> Udev 238 >> > > > -- > ~Randy -- software engineer rajagiri school of engineering and technology -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html