Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and Adaptec raidutils (again)

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:02:41 -0700
Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Dec 16), Matt Rowley said:
> 
>>>In order for the asr(4) utilities to work under FreeBSD 5.x someone
>>>just needs to convert the ports/sysutils/asr-utils port I made to
>>>build from sources as a first step -- patch submission welcomed.
>>
>>Incidentally, the source code won't build under FreeBSD 5.3.
>>It barfs out with:
>>scsi_obj.cpp:424: error: cannot bind packed field 
>>`basic_P->dptBasic_S::attachedTo' to `uLONG&
>>
>>I believe that "cannot bind packed field" stuff is a restriction introduced 
>>in gcc 3.4.2, yes?
> 
> 
> Yes; you can work around it by declaring a temp variable, assigning it
> the value of attachedTo, making whatever modification is necessary,
> then assigning attachedTo=temp.  Do this every time you get that error.
> You /might/ also be able to just remove the PACKed attribute from the
> attachedTo field, but that will cause havoc if the struct is supposed
> to line up with something generated by the card.
> 

I'd highly recommend against removing the packed attribute.

Scott
Received on Fri Dec 17 2004 - 15:03:31 UTC

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