Re: Iptables userpace tool not building with WOLK 2.6 kernel

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 16:58, Lance Albertson wrote:

Hey Lance,

> I've been having a strange problem when I have 2.6.4-wolk2.3 symlinked as
> /usr/src/linux and trying to build the iptables. It errors out and
> complains a lot about headers not being right. It finally just gives up and
> craps out in the end. Below is the latter half of the compile output. I
> tried building iptables with a different 2.6 kernel pointed to
> /usr/src/linux and it worked fine. So, I'm guessing its some patch wolk has
> applied that's messing this up. I couldn't find many answers on google
> either. Any help would be great! Thanks!
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/config.h:9:2: #error including kernel header
> in userspace; use the glibc headers instead!

well, the error out is right, iptables is wrong, but hey, for you I have a 
patch you apply and it'll build ;)

Iptables simply has to define __KERNEL__

ciao, Marc

diff -Naurp linux.old/include/linux/config.h linux.new/include/linux/config.h
--- linux.old/include/linux/config.h
+++ linux.new/include/linux/config.h
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@
 #define _LINUX_CONFIG_H
 
 #include <linux/autoconf.h>
-
-#ifndef __KERNEL__
-#error including kernel header in userspace; use the glibc headers instead!
-#endif
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86
 #include <asm/kgdb.h>
 #endif