Compile error in mol-0.9.71-pre1

[Eric Haines]

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 15:01, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting the following compile error.
>
>
> + Entering video
>     Compiling x11.o               : ok
>     Compiling xvideo.o            : ok
>     Compiling checksum.o          : ok
>     Compiling checksum_asm.o      : ok
>     Compiling vncvideo.o          : ok
>     Compiling xdga.o              : ok
>     Compiling fbdev.o             : ok
>     Compiling video.o             : ok
>     Compiling offscreen.o         : ok
> + Entering net
>     Compiling iface.o             : In file included from
> iface.c:22:
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:22: parse error before `__u32'
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:22: warning: no semicolon at
> end of struct or union
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:23: warning: data definition
> has no type or storage        class
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:28: parse error before `__u32'
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:28: warning: no semicolon at
> end of struct or union
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:29: warning: data definition
> has no type or storage        class
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:30: parse error before
> `nlmsg_flags'
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:30: warning: data definition
> has no type or storage        class
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:31: parse error before
> `nlmsg_seq'
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:31: warning: data definition
> has no type or storage        class
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:32: parse error before
> `nlmsg_pid'
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:32: warning: data definition
> has no type or storage        class
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:82: field `msg' has incomplete
> type
> iface.c: In function `tap_open':
> iface.c:200: storage size of `nladdr' isn't known
> iface.c:200: warning: unused variable `nladdr'
> make[4]: *** [.objs-ppc/iface.o] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [sub-net-all] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [sub-drivers-all] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [sub-src-all] Error 2
> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
> [fwo@green mol-rsync]$

I've just gotten the latest rsync source, and trying to compile gave me a 
similar error.  After some searching on the web, I found what seems to be a 
fix.  Edit the /usr/include/linux/netlink.h file so that after the first two 
lines:

#ifndef __LINUX_NETLINK_H
#define __LINUX_NETLINK_H

you insert these two lines:

#include <linux/types.h>
typedef unsigned long kernel_ulong_t;

Mind you, I've no idea what this does, not being a Linux programmer.  It does 
stop the compile errors though...now to see what works, if anything....

--Eric