Re: 2.6.28 headers break kbd and net-tools userspace builds

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 07:03:29PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >
> >I checked the include guards and they are correct.
> >
> >Could you please investige where it picks up the first definition
> >of struct iphdr.
> >
> >  
> Here you go:
> 
> $ make iptunnel.o
> 
> cc -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -Wall -g  -I. -idirafter ./include/ -Ilib   -c -o 
> iptunnel.o iptunnel.c
> In file included from /usr/include/linux/if_tunnel.h:5,
>                 from iptunnel.c:39:
> /usr/include/linux/ip.h:85: error: redefinition of 'struct iphdr'
> 
> $ grep -r iphdr /usr/include/
> 
> /usr/include/netinet/ip.h:struct iphdr
> /usr/include/netinet/tcp.h: * This should be defined as MIN(512, IP_MSS 
> - sizeof (struct tcpiphdr)).
> /usr/include/linux/if_tunnel.h:    struct iphdr        iph;
> /usr/include/linux/ip.h:struct iphdr {
> 
> $ grep netinet/ip.h iptunnel.c
> 
> #include <netinet/ip.h>
> 
> So linux/ip.h is clashing with glibc(2.8)'s netinet/ip.h

I took a look at my netinet/ip.h and this is obviously
the same structure.
But I do not know what the right answer is here.

Added netdev..

This may be a general thing. Because iphdr is
no a kernel thing, it is an IP thing. So one could argue
that the kernel should not export it in the first place.

	Sam