I believe the other person would be me. PowerMac 7100, Linux 2.4.x is
what I have.
I am going to try 1.0.4 and see what happens with that. I know
someone at LinuxPPC has made a RPM of it. I will see what I can find
from the source RPM in regards to patches/fixes/changes.
cheers,
mehul
>>>>> Major A writes:
Andras> Fred,
>> I've downloaded the lastest sane (1.0.5) or my PowerPC Linux
>> system. The systems is glibc 2.1.3 and kernel 2.4.6 debian
>> based. I get errors saying inb and outb are undefined.
Andras> We had someone else on the list who had a very similar problem. You
Andras> are running debian with a 2.4.x kernel (i.e. you built it yourself),
Andras> and I have the same set-up (on i386 and alpha machines though).
Andras> Note that a debian install has its own /usr/include/asm and
Andras> /usr/include/linux directories, so if you build your own kernel, it
Andras> might be worth replacing them by symbolic links to the two relevant
Andras> directories in /usr/src/linux/include (I hope you keep your kernel
Andras> source there).
>> A check through the kernl header files yields no definitions
>> except in one of the asm headers. Including the asm
>> header did not work so I suspect the problem was at
>> the linker stage.
Andras> Is it the ld command that complains? If so, you have the same problem
Andras> as that other user (can't remember their name).
>> Doesn't inb and outb have something to do with the ISA bus?
>> My PowerPC machine has no ISA bus.
Andras> It has to do with the stupid I/O handling on i386 machines. If you ask
Andras> me, it should not really be needed for any other architecture. Maybe
Andras> it just makes writing cross-platform stuff easier to keep it for all
Andras> platforms.
Andras> Hope this helps, any corrections are welcome.
Andras> Andras
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