To build plymouth (plymouth-0.8.4-0.20101119.2) on ppc I had to create
following patch. Before sending it to the maintainer I wanted to present
it here to make sure it is the correct way to fix it.
PAGE_SIZE seems to be not defined on ppc and following patch fixes
building plymouth:
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
#include <time.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/vt.h>
-
+#include <unistd.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>
#include "ply-logger.h"
@@ -971,6 +971,7 @@
char *command_line;
ssize_t bytes_read;
int fd;
+ int ps;
ssize_t i;
path = NULL;
@@ -986,8 +987,9 @@
goto error;
}
- command_line = calloc (PAGE_SIZE, sizeof (char));
- bytes_read = read (fd, command_line, PAGE_SIZE - 1);
+ ps = getpagesize();
+ command_line = calloc (ps, sizeof (char));
+ bytes_read = read (fd, command_line, ps - 1);
if (bytes_read < 0)
{
ply_trace ("Could not read %s: %m", path);
Is that the correct way to solve it?
Adrian