Compiling nikal on kernel 3.8.13

[AKHuettel]

See log below... any idea?

(The grep error in the first line of configure output is afaik harmless and can be ignored, I checked in the source. It comes from installerUtility.sh line 314. version.h has moved in 3.8 to include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h; if the file is not found, the check if the kernel headers correspond to the correct kernel version is just skipped in the installer. (good.) nikal configure is cleverer in figuring out the kernel version.)

measurement nikal # LANG=C ./configure

/bin/grep: /lib/modules/3.8.13-gentoo/source/include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory

Configuring for linux kernel version 3.8.13-gentoo.

********************************* NOTE *********************************

Using kernel headers found in /lib/modules/3.8.13-gentoo/source.

If this does not correspond to the location of the 3.8.13-gentoo headers,

then define KERNELHEADERS in your environment to point to the location

of the kernel headers, define KERNELTARGET as the version of the

kernel for which to compile, and then rerun ./configure.

********************************* NOTE *********************************

/usr/bin/expr: syntax error

Kernel has reparent_to_init(): no

Number of arguments for do_munmap(): 3

pte_offset function: pte_offset_kernel()

Levels in page table: 4

Kernel has remap_pfn_range: yes

Kernel has kzalloc: yes

Kernel has chained SGL support: yes

USB altsetting name: cur_altsetting

Kernel has usb_get_intf(): yes

Kernel has intf_cache member in usb_host_config: yes

Kernel has ep[] members in usb_device: yes

Kernel exports usb_set_configuration(): no

Units of USB_CTRL_GET_TIMEOUT: msec

Kernel has owner member in usb_driver: no

Kernel has put_page_testzero(): yes

Kernel has mutex method: yes

Kernel has wait_for_completion_interruptible: yes

Kernel has config.h: no

Kernel has ioctl32.h: no

IRQ handlers have pt_regs: no

Kernel has work_struct and delayed_work: yes

Kernel supports fault method in vm_operations_struct: yes

Kernel has ioremap_wc: yes

Kernel has pgprot_writecombine: yes

Storing configuration in Makefile.in

If the values stored are incorrect they can be changed before running make.

measurement nikal # LANG=C make

  CC   /usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.o

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL220_registerDeviceInterfaceCommon':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:1163:7: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type 'int', but argument 5 has type 'size_t' [-Wformat]

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL100_mmap':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:1993:24: error: 'VM_RESERVED' undeclared (first use in this function)

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:1993:24: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL190_vmaPageFaultHandler':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:2148:11: error: 'VM_CAN_NONLINEAR' undeclared (first use in this function)

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL220_vmaPageFaultHandler':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:2161:11: error: 'VM_CAN_NONLINEAR' undeclared (first use in this function)

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL100_remapPageRange':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:2625:22: error: 'VM_RESERVED' undeclared (first use in this function)

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL100_doMMap':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:2658:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'do_mmap' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL100_enumeratePCIBuses':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:3818:43: error: 'nLinux_pciBus' has no member named 'secondary'

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL220_vmaPageFaultHandler':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:2162:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL190_vmaPageFaultHandler':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:2149:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]

cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

make[2]: *** [/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal] Error 2

make: *** [all] Error 2

measurement nikal #

I'll write a longer post about the experience of trying to install VISA and DAQmxBase on Gentoo, but for now this is the main point where I'm stuck...

[AKHuettel]

For the record, this is nikali-2.3.0-f0 from the NI-DAQmx Base 3.6.0-f0 ISO file.

[AKHuettel]

I re-based the patch from https://decibel.ni.com/content/message/51362 on NI-KAL-2.3.1 (there are some intermediary commits missing, it does not apply cleanly because the context changed). This takes care of all the VM_* symbols. Here are the remaining errors:

measurement nikal # LANG=C make

  CC   /usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.o

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL220_registerDeviceInterfaceCommon':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:1166:7: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type 'int', but argument 5 has type 'size_t' [-Wformat]

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL100_doMMap':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:2661:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'do_mmap' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL100_enumeratePCIBuses':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:3821:43: error: 'nLinux_pciBus' has no member named 'secondary'

cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

make[2]: *** [/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal] Error 2

make: *** [all] Error 2

measurement nikal #

[AKHuettel]

Next step. Given the following commit

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b918c62e086b2130a7ba...

I suspect the fix for the pcibus structure should be (disclaimer, I am no kernel hacker and don't really know what I am doing)

measurement nikal # diff -ruN src.orig src

diff -ruN src.orig/nikal/nikal.c src/nikal/nikal.c

--- src.orig/nikal/nikal.c      2013-05-19 09:21:53.694994655 +0200

+++ src/nikal/nikal.c   2013-05-19 09:46:24.528886569 +0200

@@ -3818,7 +3818,7 @@

             }

          }

          pciBusInformation.primary = bus->primary;

-         pciBusInformation.secondary = bus->secondary;

+         pciBusInformation.secondary = bus->busn_res.start;

          (*visitor)(visitorArgument, &pciBusInformation);

       }

measurement nikal #

Indeed that builds and we're down to one fatal error.

measurement nikal # LANG=C make

  CC   /usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.o

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL220_registerDeviceInterfaceCommon':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:1166:7: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type 'int', but argument 5 has type 'size_t' [-Wformat]

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c: In function 'nNIKAL100_doMMap':

/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.c:2661:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'do_mmap' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

make[2]: *** [/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal] Error 2

make: *** [all] Error 2

measurement nikal #

[irwan]

Kudos for being very resourceful, and you've been sharing your findings/methods so others can benefit as well. Thanks man!

Here are some files from the latest nikal 2.4 beta (it's not released yet till later this year).. Looks like this can help you make progress for now. Please use the release version later though.

Replace those files in your /usr/local/natinst/nikal folder and do updateNIDriver

It should work.. unless I forgot to attach some other files for you to use.. Please post your finding here.
Thanks again!

[AKHuettel]

measurement nikal # make

  CC   /usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.o

  Building modules, stage 2.

  MODPOST 1 modules

  CC      /usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.mod.o

  LD   /usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/nikal/nikal.ko

measurement nikal #

Builds fine! Thanks!

This is for now just a vmware virtual machine without any hardware attached (so I can easily return to "clean snapshots"). Some other stuff still needs fixing (init scripts for gentoo etc), but that is doable from here. I'll post more once I run it with some real instrument.