Re: compiling problems

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 13:43 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:03:28PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 00:09 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > The patch below should fix up the gcc issues.  But you will then get the
> > > following one:
> > >   udev_add.c: In function `rename_net_if':
> > >   udev_add.c:271: structure has no member named `ifr_newname'
> > >   udev_add.c:271: structure has no member named `ifr_newname'
> > >   udev_add.c:271: structure has no member named `ifr_newname'
> > >   udev_add.c:271: structure has no member named `ifr_newname'
> > > 
> > > which is a glibc issue that I don't know how to resolve.  I suggest
> > > building using the klibc that comes with udev and see if that fixes the issue.
> > 
> > Just a very bad hack for your ancient glibc, but seems to work. :)
> > 
> > === udev_add.c 1.87 vs edited ==> > --- 1.87/udev_add.c     2004-12-20 00:57:30 +01:00
> > +++ edited/udev_add.c   2005-01-12 20:59:16 +01:00
> > @@ -268,7 +268,8 @@
> >  
> > 	memset(&ifr, 0x00, sizeof(struct ifreq));
> > 	strfieldcpy(ifr.ifr_name, udev->kernel_name);
> > -	strfieldcpy(ifr.ifr_newname, udev->name);
> > +	//strfieldcpy(ifr.ifr_newname, udev->name);
> > +	strfieldcpy(ifr.ifr_ifru.ifru_data, udev->name);
> >  
> > 	retval = ioctl(sk, SIOCSIFNAME, &ifr);
> > 	if (retval != 0)
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hm, any way to make this work for both libc versions?  Or is this a
> glibc issue that we shouldn't try to work around?

Hmm, I think we should not support that officially by ifdefs and version
magic. The needed bits are added to glibc 2.1.9* in the year 2000.

Or where do you think, we should we draw the line?

Thanks,
Kay



-------------------------------------------------------
The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues
Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek.
It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt
_______________________________________________
Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list  http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel