Re: Report: iproute2 build broken?

[Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 11:51:39AM -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> I have to admit i am being lazy here digging into the
> root cause but normally iproute2 should just build
> standalone regardless especially when it is a stable
> version:
> 
> $ cat include/version.h
> static const char version[] = "5.18.0";
> 
> $make
> ..
> ....
> .....
>   CC       iplink_bond.o
> iplink_bond.c:935:10: error: initializer element is not constant
>   .desc = ipstats_stat_desc_bond_tmpl_lacp,
>           ^
> iplink_bond.c:935:10: note: (near initialization for
> ‘ipstats_stat_desc_xstats_bond_lacp.desc’)
> iplink_bond.c:957:10: error: initializer element is not constant
>   .desc = ipstats_stat_desc_bond_tmpl_lacp,
>           ^
> iplink_bond.c:957:10: note: (near initialization for
> ‘ipstats_stat_desc_xstats_slave_bond_lacp.desc’)
> ../config.mk:40: recipe for target 'iplink_bond.o' failed
> make[1]: *** [iplink_bond.o] Error 1
> Makefile:77: recipe for target 'all' failed
> make: *** [all] Error 2

Petr is OOO, not sure he will see your mail till later this week so I
will try to help. Can you try with current main branch [1] or just take
this patch [2] ?

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git/log/
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git/commit/?id=11e41a635cfab54e8e02fbff2a03715467e77ae9

> 
> There's more if you fix that one given a whole lot
> of dependencies
> 
> cheers,
> jamal