On Tuesday 03 November 2009 11:05:10 Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 November 2009 08:01:08 Garrett Cooper wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 09:26 +0530, Munipradeep Beerakam wrote:
> >> >> > I got the following warning messages while running "./configure" on
> >> >> > the ltp-full-20091031. However, make and make install worked fine.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > configure: WARNING: linux/genetlink.h: present but cannot be
> >> >> > compiled configure: WARNING: linux/genetlink.h:     check for
> >> >> > missing prerequisite headers?
> >> >> > configure: WARNING: linux/genetlink.h: see the Autoconf
> >> >> > documentation configure: WARNING: linux/genetlink.h:     section
> >> >> > "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
> >> >> > configure: WARNING: linux/genetlink.h: proceeding with the
> >> >> > preprocessor's result
> >> >> > configure: WARNING: linux/genetlink.h: in the future, the compiler
> >> >> > will take precedence
> >> >> > configure: WARNING:     ##
> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------ ##
> >> >> > configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to
> >> >> > ltp-results@lists.sourceforge.net ##
> >> >> > configure: WARNING:     ##
> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------ ##
> >>
> >>     Yeah -- I need to find the header that defines u32 (instead of
> >> uint32 or uint32_t). Does anyone know which one was that again? I
> >> thought it was a kernel specific datatype (and in that event it
> >> shouldn't be exported).
> >
> > correct -- nothing in userspace should be using u32.  if the kernel
> > headers are, they're broken and need fixing, so complain to lkml/your
> > distro.
> 
>     That's what I figured -- ok. The test and the app should also be
> converted to straight linux/genetlink.h, because linux/genetlink.h is
> a superset of linux/netlink.h.

we should get Subrata to generate the release with newer versions of autotools 
(like autoconf-2.64) so that these warnings dont show up.  if the header cant 
be compiled, then we want it marked as not usable and so the related tests get 
skipped.
-mike