Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:26946 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756949Ab2IXQls (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:41:48 -0400 Message-ID: <1348505103.8464.16.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> (sfid-20120924_184152_790226_5566D40F) Subject: Re: compile error iw on centos 5 From: Dan Williams To: info Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:45:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <07A9A66798FE4AEEBDD199D961D87597@asusPC> References: <20120924154646.GC32351@tuxdriver.com> <07A9A66798FE4AEEBDD199D961D87597@asusPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 17:06 +0100, info wrote: > sadly no, I've tried later versions and even iw-latest.tar.bz2 but each one > fails to compile with each version giving a different reason for the fail. Well, the point here was that trying to run anything nl80211-based (like 'iw') on Centos 5 is simply not expected to work, because Centos 5 is too old to support most of what 'iw' needs, both compile-time stuff and likely runtime stuff. The 2.6.18 kernel that Centos 5 has was originally released in 2006, and that was *long* before any nl80211-based wifi stuff was usable. Which means iw is quite unlikely to ever work there. RHEL 6 (or Centos 6) have good nl80211 support and thus would be much more likely to work with 'iw'. Dan > > -----Original Message----- > From: John W. Linville > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 4:46 PM > To: Anthony Griffiths > Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: compile error iw on centos 5 > > The wireless stack in RHEL 5 (and therefore CentOS 5) is rather old. > I'm not sure that trying to run an updated iw on it will be a fruitful > exercise...? > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:59:52AM +0100, Anthony Griffiths wrote: > > I'm trying to compile iw in centos5.8 server (command line only). I > > have libnl and libnl-devel installed: > > ]# rpm -q libnl > > libnl-1.0-0.10.pre5.5 > > I've tried 4 different versions of iw*.tar.bz2 but all give compile > > errors that i can't resolve. The last one I tried was iw-0.9.1 but > > make gives: > > ]# make > > CC interface.o > > In file included from /usr/include/net/if.h:26, > > from interface.c:2: > > /usr/include/sys/types.h:62: error: conflicting types for ‘dev_t’ > > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:22: > > error: previous declaration of ‘d ev_t’ was here > > /usr/include/sys/types.h:67: error: conflicting types for ‘gid_t’ > > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:54: > > error: previous declaration of ‘g id_t’ was here > > /usr/include/sys/types.h:72: error: conflicting types for ‘mode_t’ > > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:24: > > error: previous declaration of ‘m ode_t’ was here > > /usr/include/sys/types.h:77: error: conflicting types for ‘nlink_t’ > > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:25: > > error: previous declaration of ‘n link_t’ was here > > /usr/include/sys/types.h:82: error: conflicting types for ‘uid_t’ > > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:53: > > error: previous declaration of ‘u id_t’ was here > > In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:133, > > from /usr/include/net/if.h:26, > > from interface.c:2: > > /usr/include/time.h:105: error: conflicting types for ‘timer_t’ > > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:31: > > error: previous declaration of ‘t imer_t’ was here > > In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:220, > > from /usr/include/net/if.h:26, > > from interface.c:2: > > /usr/include/sys/select.h:78: error: conflicting types for ‘fd_set’ > > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:21: > > error: previous declaration of ‘f d_set’ was here > > In file included from /usr/include/net/if.h:26, > > from interface.c:2: > > /usr/include/sys/types.h:235: error: conflicting types for ‘blkcnt_t’ > > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:142: > > error: previous declaration of ‘ blkcnt_t’ was here > > make: *** [interface.o] Error 1 > > > > There is no iw yum package for centos5 that I can find. > > I've been searching google but cannot find a solution to the above > > error, thanks for any help. > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" > > in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > >