On Monday 09 November 2009 12:39:21 Subrata Modak wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 12:30 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 November 2009 11:05:10 Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Mike Frysinger 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
> 
> I upgraded my system to 2.64 just now.
> 
> $ /usr/bin/autoconf --version
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.64
> Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
> 
> Hope this would solve all such problems.

well, the configure script wasnt really broken before.  people just cant 
handle any sort of warning message and reading the related log files can be 
too much.
-mike