[Thunar-dev] compilation error

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Jean-François Wauthy wrote:
> 
>>Hey benny
>>
>>i just tried to compile lastest svn thunar and got that error: 
>>
>>thunar-vfs-mime-cache.c: In function `thunar_vfs_mime_cache_new':
>>thunar-vfs-mime-cache.c:487: warning: implicit declaration of function
>>`posix_madvise'
>>thunar-vfs-mime-cache.c:487: error: `POSIX_MADV_WILLNEED' undeclared
>>(first use in this function)
>>thunar-vfs-mime-cache.c:487: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
>>reported only  once
>>thunar-vfs-mime-cache.c:487: error: for each function it appears in.)
>>make[1]: *** [libthunar_vfs_la-thunar-vfs-mime-cache.lo] Erreur 1
>>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jf/Xfce/SVN/thunar/trunk/thunar-vfs'
>>make: *** [all] Erreur 2
>>
>>using the attached patch solved it but i don't know enough about posix
>>functions to be sure it's correct...
> 
> 
> madvise is not portable. posix_madvise must be used instead. 
> posix_madvise, POSIX_MADV_NORMAL, POSIX_MADV_SEQUENTIAL, 
> POSIX_MADV_RANDOM, POSIX_MADV_WILLNEED, and POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED must be 
> declared in sys/mman.h.
> 
> Check your /usr/include/sys dir, maybe glibc uses non-standard location 
> for the defines.

A quick check on espresso tells me that POSIX_MADV_* is defined in 
bits/mman.h, which is included in sys/mman.h. Maybe your system is b0rked?

Benedikt