kover FTBFS due to error in linux/byteorder/little_endian.h

[Steve Kowalik]

While trying to build kover 1:2.9.6-3ubuntu1, this error is encountered:

/usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:43: error: '__le64' does not name a type
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:47: error: expected ',' or '...' before '*' token
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h: In function '__u64 __le64_to_cpup(int)':
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:49: error: 'p' was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h: At global scope:
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:67: error: '__be64' does not name a type
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:71: error: expected ',' or '...' before '*' token
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h: In function '__u64 __be64_to_cpup(int)':
/usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:73: error: 'p' was not declared in this scope

Only one file in the kover source references anything under linux/, which is cdrom.cc, and it includes <linux/cdrom.h>, which I suspect is fair enough so that it can use the cdrom ioctls.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

The problem is in kover. It is using headers that are exporting 64-bit types, but also compiling using -ansi, which forces things to assume no 64-bit types.

KDE also had this problem. Kover needs to not compile with -ansi. That is a bug, because at the same time it is using 64-bit types which is not ansi compliant.

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

I have added a patch that hacks configure (icky) to not call gcc with -ansi in 1:2.9-6-3ubuntu2.