A fresh checkout on a RHEL 6 machine with these packages:
kernel-headers-2.6.32-405.el6.x86_64
glibc-2.12-1.128.el6.x86_64
failed to configure with this message:
checking for linux/if_bridge.h... no
configure: error: You must install kernel-headers in order to compile libvirt with QEMU or
LXC support
Digging in config.log, we see that the problem is identical to
what we fixed earlier in commit d12c2811:
configure:98831: checking for linux/if_bridge.h
configure:98853: gcc -std=gnu99 -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5
In file included from /usr/include/linux/if_bridge.h:17,
from conftest.c:559:
/usr/include/linux/in6.h:31: error: redefinition of 'struct in6_addr'
/usr/include/linux/in6.h:48: error: redefinition of 'struct sockaddr_in6'
/usr/include/linux/in6.h:56: error: redefinition of 'struct ipv6_mreq'
configure:98860: $? = 1
I had not hit it earlier because I was using incremental builds,
where config.cache had shielded me from the kernel-headers breakage.
* configure.ac (if_bridge.h): Avoid conflicting type definitions.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com>
---
Pushing under the build-breaker rule, and backporting to v1.1.1-maint
configure.ac | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 944a870..02f3e4a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -999,7 +999,14 @@ if test "$with_linux" = "yes"; then
if test "$with_qemu" = "yes" || test "$with_lxc" =
"yes" ; then
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/param.h linux/sockios.h linux/if_bridge.h linux/if_tun.h],,
[AC_MSG_ERROR([You must install kernel-headers in order to compile libvirt with
QEMU or LXC support])],
- [[#include <netinet/in.h>
+ [[/* The kernel folks broke their headers when used with particular
+ * glibc versions; although the structs are ABI compatible, the
+ * C type system doesn't like struct redefinitions. We work around
+ * the problem here in the same manner as in virnetdevbridge.c. */
+ #include <netinet/in.h>
+ #define in6_addr in6_addr_
+ #define sockaddr_in6 sockaddr_in6_
+ #define ipv6_mreq ipv6_mreq_
]])
fi
fi
--
1.8.3.1