errors compiling 0.71pre1

[Eric Haines]

On Wednesday 19 May 2004 23:42, you wrote:
> Have not compiled mol in ages. rsynced from rsync.penguinppc.org,
> using 2.4.26, saw the new menuconfig setup (!), left everything at
> default. Getting this make 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 if-tun.o            : In file included from if-tun.c:21:
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:22: parse error before "__u32"
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:28: parse error before "__u32"
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:30: parse error before "nlmsg_flags"
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:31: parse error before "nlmsg_seq"
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:32: parse error before "nlmsg_pid"
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:82: field `msg' has incomplete type
> /usr/include/linux/netlink.h:83: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
> make[4]: *** [../../../obj-ppc/build/src/drivers/net//if-tun.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
>
> Is this a linux error (kernel compiled fine) or mol?
>
>
> Stefan Jeglinski

I got the same or similar error with 2.4.22, which I fixed by editing the 
/usr/include/linux/netlink.h file so that after the first two lines:

#ifndef __LINUX_NETLINK_H
#define __LINUX_NETLINK_H

I inserted these two lines:

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

--Eric