From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iproute2 issue with adding rules.
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:27:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100517132732.2b7fc1a1@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF1A352.5020500@candelatech.com>
On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:13:06 -0700
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
> On 05/17/2010 12:03 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> > On older releases, you can do this with iproute:
> >
> > # ip ru add from 9.9.9.2/32 table 226 pref 400
> > #
> >
> > But, in latest git, it returns an error:
> > # ip ru add from 9.9.9.2/32 table 226 pref 400
> > Error: an inet prefix is expected rather than "9.9.9.2/32".
> >
> > Is that on purpose?
>
> I was thinking maybe this was a library issue, since I compiled
> on one machine and ran the 'ip' exe on another. So, I tried compiling
> on the test system.
>
> But, iproute will not compile, apparently because it finds the
> /usr/include/linux header files before whatever is packaged with
> iproute:
>
> gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -Wstrict-prototypes -Wall -I../include -DRESOLVE_HOSTNAMES -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib/\" -c -o ipaddress.o ipaddress.c
> ipaddress.c: In function ‘print_linkinfo’:
> ipaddress.c:334: error: ‘IFLA_VFINFO’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> ipaddress.c:334: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> ipaddress.c:334: error: for each function it appears in.)
> make[1]: *** [ipaddress.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/git/iproute2/ip'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> I tried moving /usr/include/linux out of the way, but then it blows up
> even worse (can't find errno.h, etc)
>
> Are we supposed to be able to compile iproute2 on a system with moderately
> outdated kernel headers?
>
> If not, why bother with the iproute/include/linux directory at all?
The issue is the last minute VF changes in 2.6.34 are not supported
in iproute util yet. Please wait until it is fixed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-17 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-17 19:03 iproute2 issue with adding rules Ben Greear
2010-05-17 20:13 ` Ben Greear
2010-05-17 20:27 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-05-17 20:28 ` Ben Greear
2010-05-17 20:30 ` Chris Wright
2010-05-17 20:34 ` Ben Greear
2010-05-17 21:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
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