Re: util-linux-2.22: backward compatibility of wdctl

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Hi Bernhard,
[thanks for CC'ing me, as I'm not subscribed]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 15:37:48 +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> You can use a crude hack to work around building wdctl:
>   $ touch sys-utils/wdctl.o wdctl ; make

Fine for me for the time being. I just wanted to point this out because
it will break people's (and distributions') builds.

> but this won't make you happy. You'll most propably hit other
> problems. This is from my SLES 10.4 system:

I see the same thing as you in partx, of course.

> Temporarily defining __user to nothing seems to work:
>   $ make CFLAGS='-D__user='

Good point. I figured out that this is supposed to be happening in
<linux/compiler.h>, but even including that didn't help. At least partx
build can be disabled (--disable-partx).

> ... although this is another bad workaround. ;-(

Looking forward to 2.22.1. :-)

Thanks,
Moritz
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