Re: Problems building quagga

[Paul Jakma]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Scott Reese wrote:

> Greetings Paul:
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to answer.  The reason that I
> submitted this as a bug is that the original zebra code (version
> 0.93b is the last version that I have built) builds and runs fine
> on this system.

Yes, it would do. Its a problem with Gentoo's capability.h header.

> I double checked the things that you recommended, the symlinks and
> such.  The directories are actual directories, not symlinks.  The
> Gentoo systems are built from source, not based on compile
> packages, so I'm pretty sure that the build environment is
> configured correctly.

Having gone through this previously with another Gentoo user, this is
100% for certain a Gentoo problem. However, that was quite a while
ago and i dont remember the resolution - I have a vague memory it's
due to Gentoo, for some infathomable reason, having modified one of
the capability.h headers to define __KERNEL if you include
sys/capability.h.

> Perhaps quagga requires a library that I don't have installed?  

No, its a preprocessing problem, one that appears to be specific to
either the sys/capability.h or linux/capability.h header file which
Gentoo installs.

> I tried to find a list of what it required, but I couldn't find
> that anything seemed to be required beyond glibc.

You need libcap. But you must already have this installed to have hit 
this Gentoo header problem.

> If there is any more information that I can contribute, please let
> me know.
> 
> Again, thanks for your time.
> 
> -Scott

regards,
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