IPTables 1.3.0 on RaQ2

IPTables 1.3.0 on RaQ2

[Jim Gifford]

When I tried to compile iptables 1.3.0 on a MIPS based machine (Cobalt 
RaQ2), I get the following error.

# make BINDIR="/usr/bin" LIBDIR="/usr/lib" MANDIR="/usr/man"
Making dependencies: please wait...
Something wrong... deleting dependencies.
make: *** [cpu-feature-overrides.h] Error 1


Any suggestions

Re: IPTables 1.3.0 on RaQ2

[Harald Welte]

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On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 07:23:46PM -0800, Jim Gifford wrote:
> When I tried to compile iptables 1.3.0 on a MIPS based machine (Cobalt 
> RaQ2), I get the following error.

without some information on what distribution you are using, which
kernel source version or kernel headers, ... you will certainly not
receive any answer :(

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Re: IPTables 1.3.0 on RaQ2

[Jim Gifford]

Harald Welte wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 07:23:46PM -0800, Jim Gifford wrote:
>  
>
>>When I tried to compile iptables 1.3.0 on a MIPS based machine (Cobalt 
>>RaQ2), I get the following error.
>>    
>>
>
>without some information on what distribution you are using, which
>kernel source version or kernel headers, ... you will certainly not
>receive any answer :(
>
>  
>
I'm using the straight kernel sources, with the patches from 
linux-mips.org for 2.6.9. I'm not using any distro, I built everything 
from the source codes. The particular MIPS processor I'm using doesn't 
have any cpu-feature-overrides.h file.

Re: IPTables 1.3.0 on RaQ2

[Jim Gifford]

I solved the issue, it does happen with 1.3.1 also, the problem is the 
headers, even after fixed the headers it still bombed. Here is the 
message I posted on linux-mips list.

I found the culprit, but don't know what the proper fix is.

File - What to remove or comment out
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/cpu-features.h - #include 
<cpu-feature-overrides.h>
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/addrspace.h -  #include <spaces.h>

But it still fails, because it looks at the headers in /usr/include and 
the ones is /usr/src/linux/include, which is what the problem is. Namely 
socket.h, it tries to include both versions.

What I noticed is some of the mips architectures includes have these 
files and some do not.

A workaround for those who use the linux-libc-headers to build iptables 
with the following commands, but I would still comment out those files 
to prevent other build issues later

make KERNEL_DIR=/usr

But I'm not sure of the stability and the functionality.

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