Re: IPTables 1.3.x fails on RaQ2

[Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>]

Jim Gifford wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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.

You need to patch the headers for these things -- i.e.:

#include <cpu-feature-overrides.h>

becomes

#include <asm/mach-generic/cpu-feature-overrides.h>

Same goes for references to spaces.h, and most other files directly referenced 
as '#include <file.h>' in 'include/asm-mips/*'.  mach-generic is best suited 
for this despite the actual machine because these are geared for userland, and 
userland shouldn't really care about what particular mips machine it's running on.


--Kumba

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