netfilter buglog - Jan 2009 - [Bug 571] New: Compile of iptables 1.4.2 with testing Linux kernel 2.6.29-rc2 fails - workaround included

http://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571

           Summary: Compile of iptables 1.4.2 with testing Linux kernel
                    2.6.29-rc2 fails - workaround included
           Product: iptables
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Gentoo
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: iptables
        AssignedTo: laforge at netfilter.org
        ReportedBy: jrut at spamcop.net


On a Gentoo Linux distribution with gcc version 4.3.2 against testing Linux
kernel 2.6.29-rc2, I have encountered the following message:
---------
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/iptables-1.4.2'
  GEN      initext4.c
  CC       initext4.o
  AR       libext4.a
  AR       libext4.a
  GEN      initext6.c
  CC       initext6.o
  AR       libext6.a
  GEN      matches4.man
  GEN      matches6.man
  GEN      targets4.man
  GEN      targets4.man
  GEN      targets6.man
  CC       libxt_CLASSIFY.oo
In file included from libxt_CLASSIFY.c:11:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/pkt_sched.h:516: error: expected
specifier-qualifier-list before ?u32?
make[2]: *** [libxt_CLASSIFY.oo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/iptables-1.4.2/extensions'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/iptables-1.4.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2
-----------
Editing line 516 in linux-2.6.29-rc2/include/linux/pkt_sched.h to change
'u32'
to '__u32' allows the compile to proceed OK to completion.  I do not
know if
the problem should be reported to you or to the kernel people.
Thank you very much for your efforts on behalf of iptables.


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------- Comment #1 from jrut at spamcop.net  2009-01-18 02:46 -------
Created an attachment (id=294)
 --> (http://bugzilla.netfilter.org/attachment.cgi?id=294&action=view)
patch to original linux-2.6.29-rc2 to workaround the problem - quite possibly
not good final solution

This patch is a "workaround" since I am not familiar with the linux
kernel
enough to be able to say whether the change in the 2.6.29 include file is a
good change other than that it cures the problem with compiling iptables 1.4.2
with
testing kernel 2.6.29-rc2.  The patch MIGHT have undesired consequences when
the include file is used with other software.


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laforge at netfilter.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         AssignedTo|laforge at netfilter.org       |kaber at trash.net




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