Re: [LTP] [Ltp-results] Got warning message on ltp-full-20091031 while running ./configure

From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net, ltp-list <ltp-list@lists.sf.net>
Subject: Re: [LTP] [Ltp-results] Got warning message on ltp-full-20091031 while running ./configure
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:05:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <364299f40911030805m5e40d9c8w74a69d7f452200f8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911031050.38755.vapier@gentoo.org>

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.
Thanks,
-Garrett

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