ext2_types.h in package e2fslibs-dev is whacked
Ben Collins
ben.collins at ubuntu.com
Sun Jan 8 16:29:06 GMT 2006
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 12:59 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Sorry, I was up all night and a bit cranky when I wrote that ;)
>
> Now that I'm well rested, I see clearly what the problem is... both long
> and long long are 64 bits on amd64. The .h.in tests for both to be 8,
> but tests long before long long and goes with the first one it finds.
> This conflicts with the long long definition used in asm/types.h. This
> should be easy to fix by simply reversing the order of the two checks so
> that long long gets priority. I guess I should make the fix in the
> package and upload the debdiff to a malone bug.
I strongly suggest posting the patch to upstream for ext2libs, since
this change could have potential issues that are not easily seen.
Upstream would have a better understanding of what affect the change
will have.
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Ben Collins <ben.collins at ubuntu.com>
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