Re: error: unknown type name 'd_thread_t'

On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 21:51:37 -0500 Ultima <ultima1252_at_gmail.com> wrote

> Hello chris,
> 
Looks like we both answered at the same time. :-)
> d_thread_t was a compatible shim to support FreeBSD 4.
Right. It was later considered COMPAT_FREEBSD5.
> It was removed in
> current some time ago,
Right. Removed by jhb _at_r277897.
>  changing to struct thread should fix this error.
Thanks! I was able to figure that out, and replied to myself;
s/d_thread_t/struct thread/g

I must have read your mind. Or you just sent me some ESP. ;-)

Thanks for taking the time to help, Ultima!
> 
> Ultima
> 
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Chris H <bsd-lists_at_bsdforge.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings, all.
> > Apologies in advance, if this is better suited for
> > freebsd-hackers_at_. But given this is only relevant to CURRENT,
> > I hoped it would be OK.
> >
> > OK. I'm attempting to build an i386 development box on -CURRENT.
> > I'm stuck using a legacy nvidia card (NV-34). Yea, I know. But
> > that's what I have. Anyway, that necessitates my maintaining a
> > local copy of the now defunct x11/nvidia-driver-173 port.
> > I've cobbled/refined all the necessary patches; save one.
> > Which is what beings me here. It appears that the d_thread_t
> > compatibility shim provided in 5.0 was dumped in r277897.
> > Sadly, as a result I receive the following, when attempting
> > to build the port (in spite of having COMPAT_FREEBSD5 built
> > in to my custom kernel):
> >
> >
> >
> >
/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.39/src/nv-fre
> > ebs d.h:459:68: error: unknown type name 'd_thread_t'
> > int    nvidia_handle_ioctl   (struct cdev *, u_long, caddr_t, int,
> > d_thread_t
> > *)
> > ;
> >                                                                    ^
> >
> >
> >
/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.39/src/nv-fre
> > ebs d.h:463:46: error: unknown type name 'd_thread_t'
> > int    nvidia_open_ctl       (struct cdev *, d_thread_t *);
> >                                              ^
> >
> >
> >
/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.39/src/nv-fre
> > ebs d.h:464:69: error: unknown type name 'd_thread_t'
> > int    nvidia_open_dev       (struct nvidia_softc *, struct cdev *,
> > d_thread_t
> > *
> > );
> >                                                                     ^
> >
> >
> >
/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.39/src/nv-fre
> > ebs d.h:465:46: error: unknown type name 'd_thread_t'
> > int    nvidia_close_ctl      (struct cdev *, d_thread_t *);
> >                                              ^
> >
> >
> >
/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.39/src/nv-fre
> > ebs d.h:466:69: error: unknown type name 'd_thread_t'
> > int    nvidia_close_dev      (struct nvidia_softc *, struct cdev *,
> > d_thread_t
> > *
> > );
> >
> > Is there any way around this?
> >
> > Thanks for any, and all help with this!
> >

--Chris

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