Linux-Hams archive - July 1999: Re: Is netromd broke in ax25-tools-0.0.2?

Re: Is netromd broke in ax25-tools-0.0.2?

Karl F. Larsen (rmmekjx@fm-2.com)
Sun, 4 Jul 1999 16:32:08 -0600 (MDT)


Hi Tomi, I hope you can get the one liner that fixes netromd to compile
using 6 month old library's. Why assume every ham has the capability to
load and use an experimental library? This is not the case.

On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Tomi Manninen wrote:

} On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Byron Hicks wrote:
}
} > > > Netromd loads ok, but when I receive routing updates from netrom
} > > > neighbors, I get the following error:
} > > >
} > > > Jun 30 13:24:20 w5gb netromd[10867]: netromr: SIOCADDRT: Invalid
} > > > argument
} > >
} > > You are running a 2.2.x kernel, right?
} >
} > Yes, RedHat Linux 6.0 Distribution, 2.2.9 kernel, latest ax25-lib,
} > ax25-tools, ax25-apps.
}
} Ok, I now know what went wrong and I just sent a patch to Craig to fix
} this (among other things). The trouble is that while the actual fix is
} simple (a one liner), Red Hat makes things a bit more complicated by using
} a glibc version that is recent but not recent enough... So people will
} need to fiddle with the header files if they want compile things them
} selves. The other alternative is to wait for the Red Hat people to make
} RPMs for the stuff.
}
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Best wishes

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