[LAD] completely [ot] - compilation help

[Christian Schoenebeck]

Am Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2008 09:50:00 schrieb Julien Claassen:
> Hello folks!
>    I'm soory for posting here, but I hope someone can help me. I'm just
> compiling a bit of code and gcc gives a strange error, which Ican't fix.
> Code snippet:
> [...]
>    if (ioctl (vcsa_fd, KBD_SNIFF_SET, &set) < 0)
>    {
>       sbl_log ("no kernel support for keyboard sniffing\n");
>       kbd_sniffing = 0;
>       return 0;
>     }
>     else { ... }
> /* end of snipet */
> the reproduceable compiler error says something about the if-statement:
> kbd.h:96: error: expected ')' before '[' token
>    It does the same for two other ioctl statements, one incuded in an if,
> the other in an assignment like:
> value = ioctl (...);

It's a bit hard to help you without having the exact source code and exact 
error messages. The errors you're talking about could just be some 
consecutive faults, the root cause(s) might be something completely 
different.

CU
Christian