Re: [ANNOUNCE] libmnl 1.0.0 release

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

On 18/12/10 13:40, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> 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.

I bet that examples will not compile either in old Linux kernels. Try
`make check'.