compile error kdebase-3.5.4/kcontrol/joystick

[Michel Hermier]

2006/8/27, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>:
> On Sunday 27 August 2006 00:20, Martin Koller wrote:
>
> > I'm the maintainer of KDEs joystick calibration module, and recently I came
> > across a compile problem under a newer kernel (2.6.18) than mine:
>
> I can confirm this on 2.6.17
>
> > /usr/include/linux/input.h:801: error: `kernel_ulong_t' does not name a
> > type
> >
> > I have seen that the problem is due to the fact that kernel_ulong_t is only
> > defined when also __KERNEL__ is defined - which is not the case in my
> > user-space application.
>
> I did the typedef manually and it then fails later on because BITS_PER_LONG is
> not defined either
>
> Since those are not defined anywhere else, it is likely that the headers are
> broken or some additional header file is missing.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin

Ar you sure of the origin of your kernel includes in
/usr/include/linux ? Last time I had this error was with include from
the 2.6.16.x series.

Cheers,
Michel