From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Riad Abo Raed <riada@mellanox.com>,
Guy Ergas <guye@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] iproute2: Fix undeclared __kernel_long_t type build error in RHEL 6.8
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:59:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171205165940.3a75e4c7@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171202082833.GF8126@mtr-leonro.local>
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On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 10:28:33 +0200
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 08:48:07AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 13:04:51 +0200
> > Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
> > >
> > > Add asm/posix_types.h header file to the list of needed includes,
> > > because the headers files in RHEL 6.8 are too old and doesn't
> > > have declaration of __kernel_long_t.
> > >
> > > In file included from ../include/uapi/linux/kernel.h:5,
> > > from ../include/uapi/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h:4,
> > > from ../include/xtables.h:20,
> > > from em_ipset.c:26:
> > > ../include/uapi/linux/sysinfo.h:9: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘__kernel_long_t’
> > >
> > > Cc: Riad Abo Raed <riada@mellanox.com>
> > > Cc: Guy Ergas <guye@mellanox.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
> >
> > I see the problem, but the solution of dragging in posix_types.h
> > would be too much of a long term maintenance issue.
> > All the headers in uapi are regularly generated from upstream
> > kernel headers; I don't want to start making exceptions.
> >
> > Is it just the xtables stuff (which has always been problematic)?
>
> Yes, both failures are related to xtables. And this wass my naive approach to
> solve first one, the second mentioned in the original commit log
> (missing xtables-version.h) is more harder to fix.
>
> Will it work if I test in configure script the existence of __kernel_long_t
> and fallback to xt-internal.h?
>
> Thanks
Why not just modify the part of the configure script that checks if xtables build will
work. It should fail if header files won't work.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-01 11:04 [PATCH iproute2] iproute2: Fix undeclared __kernel_long_t type build error in RHEL 6.8 Leon Romanovsky
2017-12-01 16:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-01 19:56 ` Michal Kubecek
2017-12-02 8:22 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-12-02 8:28 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-12-06 0:59 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-12-06 1:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-06 5:01 ` Leon Romanovsky
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