kern/60997: vm_pindex_t has conflicting definitions in machine/types.h and sys/types.h

[Bruce Evans]

The following reply was made to PR kern/60997; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au>
To: "Simson L. Garfinkel" <simsong at mit.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/60997: vm_pindex_t has conflicting definitions in
 machine/types.h and sys/types.h
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 18:46:19 +1100 (EST)

 On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Simson L. Garfinkel wrote:
 
 > >Synopsis:       vm_pindex_t has conflicting definitions in machine/types.h and sys/types.h
 
 Your header files are out of date.  <machine/types.h> doesn't exist in
 FreeBSD.
 
 > >Description:
 > building etherreal from ports doesn't work because there are conflicting definitions for vm_pindex_t:
 > ...
 > In file included from host/hr_storage.c:36:
 > /usr/include/machine/types.h:57: error: conflicting types for `vm_pindex_t'
 > /usr/include/sys/types.h:253: error: previous declaration of `vm_pindex_t'
 > *** Error code 1
 
 <sys/types.h> or the port seems to be out of date too.  Including the
 nonexistent file <machine/types.h> shouldn't be attempted.
 
 Bruce