[refpolicy] SELinux userpace compile errors

[Stephen Smalley]

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 12:17 -0700, Justin Mattock wrote:
> compiling the userspace tools
> I'm receiving some errors:
> (the first is just a simple "make" instead of "sudo make")

The default top-level target is 'install'.  So you either need to do it
as root or specify DESTDIR=/path/to/root for a writable tree.

> the second seems to maybe be with the gcc
> (which is 4.5.0)
> 
> 
> 
> policy_define.c: In function 'set_types':
> policy_define.c:1304: error: offset '3' outside bounds of constant string
> policy_define.c:1316: error: offset '3' outside bounds of constant string
> policy_define.c:1328: error: offset '3' outside bounds of constant string

Bug in gcc, already known to gcc folks.

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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency