Problems with compilation and package information on unionfs-source package

[Fábio de Oliveira]

unionfs-source doesn't work.

It's impossible to compile unionfs in a Breezy typical environment with unionfs-source package.

First, there is no especific information for Ubuntu usage (with packages are necessary to compile unionfs from unionfs-source in Ubuntu? The Makfile file is really made for Ubuntu?).

Second, the compilation process doesn't work. The module-assistant doesn't work. The make command doesn't work. With make, I saw this error message:

root@ubuntu:/usr/src/modules/unionfs# make
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If you have questions about or problems building Unionfs, please read INSTALL.
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make -C /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/unionfs FISTDEVMK=/usr/src/modules/unionfs/fistdev.mk modules
make[1]: Enter directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386'
CC [M] /usr/src/modules/unionfs/subr.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
/usr/src/modules/unionfs/subr.c: In function ‘unionfs_partial_lookup’:
/usr/src/modules/unionfs/subr.c:44: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness
/usr/src/modules/unionfs/subr.c: In function ‘create_whiteout’:
/usr/src/modules/unionfs/subr.c:153: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of ‘strncat’ differ in signedness
/usr/src/modules/unionfs/subr.c: In function ‘unionfs_refresh_hidden_dentry’:
/usr/src/modules/unionfs/subr.c:356: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘lookup_one_len’ differ in signedness
make[2]: ** [/usr/src/modules/unionfs/subr.o] Erro 1
make[1]: ** [_module_/usr/src/modules/unionfs] Erro 2
make[1]: Exit directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386'
make: ** [unionfs2.6] Erro 2

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

I cannot reproduce this in Dapper?

[Alexandre Otto Strube (surak)]

does the dpkg-buildpackage compiles it sucessfully?

[William Grant (wgrant)]

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.