[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#443014: sysvinit: FTBFS: dowall.c:114: error: called object 'major' is not a function

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Package: sysvinit
version: 2.86.ds1-38.1
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20070917 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on i386

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on i386.

Relevant part:
gcc -c -ansi -W -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -D_GNU_SOURCE -DINIT_MAIN utmp.c -o init_utmp.o
gcc -s  -o init init.o init_utmp.o -lsepol -lselinux
gcc -ansi -W -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -D_GNU_SOURCE   -c -o halt.o halt.c
gcc -ansi -W -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -D_GNU_SOURCE   -c -o ifdown.o ifdown.c
gcc -ansi -W -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -D_GNU_SOURCE   -c -o hddown.o hddown.c
gcc -c -ansi -W -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -D_GNU_SOURCE utmp.c
gcc -s -o halt halt.o ifdown.o hddown.o utmp.o
gcc -ansi -W -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -D_GNU_SOURCE   -c -o dowall.o dowall.c
dowall.c: In function 'handler':
dowall.c:37: warning: unused parameter 'arg'
dowall.c: In function 'file_isatty':
dowall.c:114: error: called object 'major' is not a function
dowall.c: In function 'wall':
dowall.c:126: warning: unused parameter 'fromshutdown'
make[1]: *** [dowall.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/user/sysvinit-2.86.ds1/src'
make: *** [build] Error 2

The full build log is available from
http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2007/09/17

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at 
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on about 50 AMD64 nodes
of the Grid'5000 platform, using a clean chroot containing a sid i386
environment.  Internet was not accessible from the build systems.

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