Re: ELL 0.59 Does Not Compile against Linux-4.9.212 and/or GLibC-2.28

Hi Grant,

On 11/8/23 15:21, Grant Erickson wrote:
> ELL Community:
> 
> Over on the connman mailing list, Marcel and Denis have been advocating, rightly so, for iwd over wpa_supplicant for Wi-Fi.
> 
> Is there a kernel version expectation of ELL?
> 

For the most part, no.  It should work with pretty old kernels.  But most of our 
development started post 4.15 or so.  If you need iwd to work with EAP, then 
4.19 is required.  Otherwise, older kernels should work fine.

> For the current project I am engaged on, the kernel is locked at linux-4.9.212, glibc-2.28, and GCC 8.2. With that combination, I have found that the absolutely latest version of ELL I can build is 0.28. Regrettably, iwd requires a more recent version than that. However, neither the version of ELL that iwd embeds nor the latest independent version of ELL, 0.59 compile against the aforementioned combination. I see the following errors:

Try the 4 patches I sent out.  Depending on your openssl version, you might see 
some weirdness there.  The detection logic seems to not work on _really_ old 
openssl versions.

Regards,
-Denis