Re: compile error iw on centos 5

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 11:46 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> The wireless stack in RHEL 5 (and therefore CentOS 5) is rather old.
> I'm not sure that trying to run an updated iw on it will be a fruitful
> exercise...?

Do we even have usable nl80211 on RHEL 5?  Pretty sure it was a Tech
Preview there if it was ever shipped, and given that RHEL5 is like
2.6.17 I'm pretty sure any nl80211 there would be unusable anyway.

Dan

> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:59:52AM +0100, Anthony Griffiths wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile iw in centos5.8 server (command line only). I
> > have libnl and libnl-devel installed:
> > ]# rpm -q libnl
> > libnl-1.0-0.10.pre5.5
> > I've tried 4 different versions of iw*.tar.bz2 but all give compile
> > errors that i can't resolve. The last one I tried was iw-0.9.1 but
> > make gives:
> > ]# make
> >  CC   interface.o
> > In file included from /usr/include/net/if.h:26,
> >                  from interface.c:2:
> > /usr/include/sys/types.h:62: error: conflicting types for ‘dev_t’
> > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:22:
> > error: previous declaration of ‘d                 ev_t’ was here
> > /usr/include/sys/types.h:67: error: conflicting types for ‘gid_t’
> > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:54:
> > error: previous declaration of ‘g                 id_t’ was here
> > /usr/include/sys/types.h:72: error: conflicting types for ‘mode_t’
> > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:24:
> > error: previous declaration of ‘m                 ode_t’ was here
> > /usr/include/sys/types.h:77: error: conflicting types for ‘nlink_t’
> > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:25:
> > error: previous declaration of ‘n                 link_t’ was here
> > /usr/include/sys/types.h:82: error: conflicting types for ‘uid_t’
> > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:53:
> > error: previous declaration of ‘u                 id_t’ was here
> > In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:133,
> >                  from /usr/include/net/if.h:26,
> >                  from interface.c:2:
> > /usr/include/time.h:105: error: conflicting types for ‘timer_t’
> > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:31:
> > error: previous declaration of ‘t                 imer_t’ was here
> > In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:220,
> >                  from /usr/include/net/if.h:26,
> >                  from interface.c:2:
> > /usr/include/sys/select.h:78: error: conflicting types for ‘fd_set’
> > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:21:
> > error: previous declaration of ‘f                 d_set’ was here
> > In file included from /usr/include/net/if.h:26,
> >                  from interface.c:2:
> > /usr/include/sys/types.h:235: error: conflicting types for ‘blkcnt_t’
> > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:142:
> > error: previous declaration of ‘                 blkcnt_t’ was here
> > make: *** [interface.o] Error 1
> > 
> > There is no iw yum package for centos5 that I can find.
> > I've been searching google but cannot find a solution to the above
> > error, thanks for any help.
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