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From: Gregory Carter <gcarter@aesgi.com>
Subject: Re: compiling extension modules with -std=c99 fails
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:37:05 -0500
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Lots of reasons.

What version of kernel development shipped with your distro?

What version of gcc are you using?

-gc

Sashan Govender wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there any reason why compiling the iptables extensions should fail
> when using -std=c99?
>
> cc -O2 -Wall -Wunused
> -I/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586/include -Iinclude/
> -DIPTABLES_VERSION=\"1.3.5\"
> -DIPT_LIB_DIR=\"/usr/local/lib/iptables\" -rdynamic -o iptables
> iptables-standalone.c iptables.o libiptc/libiptc.a -ldl -lnsl -std=c99
> In file included from include/libiptc/libiptc.h:6,
>                  from include/iptables.h:5,
>                  from iptables-standalone.c:38:
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_tables.h:43:
> error: IFNAMSIZ undeclared here (not in a function)
>
>
>