* compile error iw on centos 5
@ 2012-09-24 8:59 Anthony Griffiths
2012-09-24 15:46 ` John W. Linville
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Anthony Griffiths @ 2012-09-24 8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-wireless
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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* Re: compile error iw on centos 5
2012-09-24 8:59 compile error iw on centos 5 Anthony Griffiths
@ 2012-09-24 15:46 ` John W. Linville
2012-09-24 16:06 ` info
2012-09-24 16:09 ` Dan Williams
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: John W. Linville @ 2012-09-24 15:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Anthony Griffiths; +Cc: linux-wireless
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...?
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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* Re: compile error iw on centos 5
2012-09-24 15:46 ` John W. Linville
@ 2012-09-24 16:06 ` info
2012-09-24 16:45 ` Dan Williams
2012-09-24 16:09 ` Dan Williams
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: info @ 2012-09-24 16:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John W. Linville; +Cc: linux-wireless
sadly no, I've tried later versions and even iw-latest.tar.bz2 but each one
fails to compile with each version giving a different reason for the fail.
-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Linville
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 4:46 PM
To: Anthony Griffiths
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: compile error iw on centos 5
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...?
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.
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless"
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* Re: compile error iw on centos 5
2012-09-24 15:46 ` John W. Linville
2012-09-24 16:06 ` info
@ 2012-09-24 16:09 ` Dan Williams
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dan Williams @ 2012-09-24 16:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John W. Linville; +Cc: Anthony Griffiths, linux-wireless
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.
> > --
> > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
> > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> >
>
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* Re: compile error iw on centos 5
2012-09-24 16:06 ` info
@ 2012-09-24 16:45 ` Dan Williams
2012-09-24 17:20 ` Ben Greear
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dan Williams @ 2012-09-24 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info; +Cc: John W. Linville, linux-wireless
On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 17:06 +0100, info wrote:
> sadly no, I've tried later versions and even iw-latest.tar.bz2 but each one
> fails to compile with each version giving a different reason for the fail.
Well, the point here was that trying to run anything nl80211-based (like
'iw') on Centos 5 is simply not expected to work, because Centos 5 is
too old to support most of what 'iw' needs, both compile-time stuff and
likely runtime stuff. The 2.6.18 kernel that Centos 5 has was
originally released in 2006, and that was *long* before any
nl80211-based wifi stuff was usable. Which means iw is quite unlikely
to ever work there.
RHEL 6 (or Centos 6) have good nl80211 support and thus would be much
more likely to work with 'iw'.
Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W. Linville
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 4:46 PM
> To: Anthony Griffiths
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: compile error iw on centos 5
>
> 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...?
>
> 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.
> > --
> > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless"
> > in
> > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> >
>
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* Re: compile error iw on centos 5
2012-09-24 16:45 ` Dan Williams
@ 2012-09-24 17:20 ` Ben Greear
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Ben Greear @ 2012-09-24 17:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Williams; +Cc: info, John W. Linville, linux-wireless
On 09/24/2012 09:45 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 17:06 +0100, info wrote:
>> sadly no, I've tried later versions and even iw-latest.tar.bz2 but each one
>> fails to compile with each version giving a different reason for the fail.
>
> Well, the point here was that trying to run anything nl80211-based (like
> 'iw') on Centos 5 is simply not expected to work, because Centos 5 is
> too old to support most of what 'iw' needs, both compile-time stuff and
> likely runtime stuff. The 2.6.18 kernel that Centos 5 has was
> originally released in 2006, and that was *long* before any
> nl80211-based wifi stuff was usable. Which means iw is quite unlikely
> to ever work there.
>
> RHEL 6 (or Centos 6) have good nl80211 support and thus would be much
> more likely to work with 'iw'.
You can compile your own libraries and kernel and run on an old
OS though. We end up doing that just to support older systems in
the field, and folks stuck on old OSs for whatever reason.
I think the only useful patch for this that I carry is something
for 'ip', but my trees are on github if anyone wants to give
them a try. They mostly track upstream, but are a few months out
of date most of the time....
https://github.com/greearb
I know these compile back as far as Fedora Core 8. Not sure it will
work on CentOS 5 or not...
Thanks,
Ben
--
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Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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