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: $? = 1 I had not hit it earlier because I was using incremental builds, where config.cache had shielded me from the kernel-headers breakage. * configure.ac (if_bridge.h): Avoid conflicting type definitions. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Pushing under the build-breaker rule, and backporting to v1.1.1-maint configure.ac | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 944a870..02f3e4a 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -999,7 +999,14 @@ if test "$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