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[Pop_Os!] Problem building Heirloom Toolchest (btw any better than GNU? Or even compatible with modern Linux?) (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Problem is it can't find mkdev.h:

cpio.c:101:10: fatal error: sys/mkdev.h: No such file or directory
  101 | #include <sys/mkdev.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~

Now a UNIX system, especially both POSIX and SuS is impossible without mkdev.h

at least a shitty wrapper. And when I googled mkdev.h to see the specifics the first result was an LXR.

WHY DO MY SYSTEM HEADERS DON'T HAVE A BASIC UNIX HEADER FILE THAT LOONIX HAS? (OR HAD)

Problem is I really wanna make Heirloom. I whole-heatedly disagree with GPL because RMS drinks children's blood. I refuse to use free software and in fact I use Pop_OS! which has more binary blobs in it than a 80s musical composer for Disney movies has had dicks in him. Heirloom is based on Solaris' utilities and they are unfree as my semen is to super modles. I WANT THIS.

joking aside, what is going on here?

ls  -R  /usr/include/ | grep mkdev

Exits with 1. Nothing.

So I guess this is a Pop_OS! thing? Should I install some package to get this header?

Or was it removed from 6.8?

uname -r
=> 6.8.0-76060800daily20240311-generic

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Those are Linux headers my man. mkdev.h is a POSIX header.