[U-Boot] [PATCH] include/env.h: Ensure ulong is defined

Alistair Francis Alistair.Francis at wdc.com
Fri Nov 8 22:24:52 UTC 2019


On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 17:49 -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 11:30:45AM -0800, Alistair Francis wrote:
> 
> > To fix these failures when building with musl:
> >    include/env.h:166:1: error: unknown type name 'ulong'; did you
> > mean 'long'?
> > ensure that ulong is defined.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis at wdc.com>
> > ---
> >  include/env.h | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/env.h b/include/env.h
> > index b72239f6a5..5ca49a3456 100644
> > --- a/include/env.h
> > +++ b/include/env.h
> > @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
> >  #include <stdbool.h>
> >  #include <linux/types.h>
> >  
> > +typedef unsigned long           ulong;
> > +
> >  struct environment_s;
> >  
> >  /* Value for environment validity */
> 
> What exactly is the case you're hitting this under?  <linux/types.h>
> is
> where we have that typedef.  I'd almost rather spell out unsigned 

That only applies if __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES isn't defined (I'm guessing
it somehow is for musl).

https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/include/linux/types.h#L8

> long
> in a few more places than add a typedef here, if we can't solve this
> via
> correcting some include order or some other underlying problem.

Is there somehwere else you would prefer it?

Alistair

> 


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