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e2fsprogs package

ext2_types.h uses conflicting definition of s64 and u64 on amd64

Bug #6542 reported by Phillip Susi on 2006-01-07

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	e2fsprogs (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Tollef Fog Heen

Bug Description

The defrag package failed to build from source on amd64 in part because ext2_types.h had a conflicting definition for __s64 and __u64 that differed from those in asm/types.h. This file is in the e2fslibs-dev package which is built from e2fsprogs.

I have corrected the problem by reversing the order that the header file detects 64 bit data types so that it finds long long and uses that instead of long.

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote on 2006-01-07: Debdiff of fix

Debdiff of fix Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain)

Phillip Susi (psusi) on 2006-01-07

Changed in e2fsprogs:
assignee:	nobody → tfheen

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote on 2006-01-08: e2fsprogs_1.38-2ubuntu2.debdiff

e2fsprogs_1.38-2ubuntu2.debdiff Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain)

Let's try this again. This time I cleaned things up a bit and actually tested that it builds. The original e2fsprogs failed to build from source due to texi2html failing to build some docs. I have no idea how to fix that so I just patched the makefile to ignore errors building and installing the html docs so the package would build.

Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) on 2006-05-08

Changed in e2fsprogs:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Theodore Ts'o (tytso) wrote on 2007-07-12:

Note that a fix to this problem is I believe in 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2ubuntu1, which is in both Feisty and Gutsy. So I believe this bug can be marked "Fix Released". Can you test to make sure you are happy now?

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Theodore Ts'o (tytso) wrote on 2007-12-16:

As far as I know this bug is already fixed in Gutsy and Fiesty.