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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid in6_addr redefinition
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:40:12 -0500 (EST)
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From: Zheng Ruoqin <zhengrq.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:25:16 +0800

> Due to both <netinet/in.h> and <linux/in6.h> being included, the 
> in6_addr is being redefined: once from the C library headers and once
> from the kernel headers. This causes some build failures with for 
> example the musl C library.
> 
> In order to fix this, use just the C library header <netinet/in.h>.
> Original patch taken from
> http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/iproute2/musl-fixes.patch.
> 
> (Refreshed the patch for 4.9 release)
> 
> Upstream-Status: Pending
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Ruoqin <zhengrq.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>

We have multiple definition avoidance using CPP tests, which works in
concert with GLIBC headers, that is supposed to avoid this properly.