[arch-dev-public] Current [core] repo packages build failures

[Allan McRae]

On 04/06/12 18:15, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 01.06.2012 11:56, schrieb Allan McRae:
>> I am doing a local rebuild of all [core] packages to test if there are
>> any issues with the upcoming glibc-2.16 before it gets released.  As a
>> baseline, I built the [core] repo using the current glibc.  All failures
>> are from the latest package in [testing]/[core] with building with
>> testing-x86_64
>>
>>
>> FAIL:  syslinux
>> /usr/include/linux/ext2_fs.h:178:41: error: unknown type name 'umode_t'
> 
> Sounds weird. I'll look into it.
> 

Don't look to hard.  It is due to the header being broken.  I reported
it to the kernel bugtracker but the response was basically do not use
that header...   The syslinux dev knows about it.

Allan