[Xen-users] Error compiling Xen 2.0.7 on Fedora Core 4 with gcc4

["Chetan Jog" <cjog@xxxxxxxxxx>]

All,
I am trying to compile Xen 2.0.7 on Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) and gcc version 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8). I am getting the following compile error when I run "make world".

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make[3]: Entering directory `/root/xen-2.0/xen/arch/x86'
gcc -nostdinc -fno-builtin -fno-common -fno-strict-aliasing -iwithprefix include -Wall -Werror -pipe -I/root/xen-2.0/xen/include -Wno-pointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -msoft-float -m32 -march=i686 -DNDEBUG -S -o asm-offsets.s x86_32/asm-offsets.c

In file included from /root/xen-2.0/xen/include/asm/page.h:117,
from /root/xen-2.0/xen/include/asm/fixmap.h:18,
from /root/xen-2.0/xen/include/asm/smp.h:6,
from /root/xen-2.0/xen/include/xen/smp.h:13,
from /root/xen-2.0/xen/include/xen/sched.h:11,
from x86_32/asm-offsets.c:7:
/root/xen-2.0/xen/include/asm/processor.h:175: error: array type has incomplete element type
make[3]: *** [asm-offsets.s] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-2.0/xen/arch/x86'
make[2]: *** [/root/xen-2.0/xen/xen] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-2.0/xen'
make[1]: *** [xen] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-2.0'
make: *** [world] Error 2
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Even if I fix this error above, I get other errors as noted below.
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gcc -nostdinc -fno-builtin -fno-common -fno-strict-aliasing -iwithprefix include -Wall -Werror -pipe -I/root/xen-2.0/xen/include -Wno-pointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -msoft-float -m32 -march=i686 -DNDEBUG -c kernel.c -o kernel.o

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
kernel.c: In function ‘cmdline_parse’:
kernel.c:34: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness
kernel.c:37: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness
kernel.c:49: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of ‘strncpy’ differ in signedness
kernel.c:56: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘simple_strtol’ differ in signedness
kernel.c:63: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness
make[3]: *** [kernel.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-2.0/xen/common'
make[2]: *** [/root/xen-2.0/xen/xen] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-2.0/xen'
make[1]: *** [xen] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-2.0'
make: *** [world] Error 2
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Any input will be highly appreciated.
- Chetan

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