Re: [ANNOUNCE] libmnl 1.0.0 release

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

Hi Rob,

On 18/12/10 06:23, Rob Sterenborg (lists) wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 15:20 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> The Netfilter project presents libmnl-1.0.0
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a CentOS 5.5 base with a 2.6.36.2 kernel installed. When
> compiling libmnl I got these errors:
> 
> nlmsg.c: In function 'mnl_nlmsg_fprintf_payload':
> nlmsg.c:274: error: 'NLA_TYPE_MASK' undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> nlmsg.c:274: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> nlmsg.c:274: error: for each function it appears in.)
> nlmsg.c:290: error: 'NLA_F_NESTED' undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> nlmsg.c:292: error: 'NLA_F_NET_BYTEORDER' undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> make: *** [nlmsg.lo] Error 1
> 
> NLA_TYPE_MASK is used in nlmsg.c and attr.c. Searching I found that it
> should be defined in linux/netlink.h but it's not there.

I'd appreciate if you can guess what version of the kernel header files
you're using (CentOS uses a mutant Linux kernel 2.6.18, right?).

I can make a patch based on your idea to make libmnl compile cleanly
with old Linux kernels.