[asterisk-dev] gentoo linux problems with dahdi-tools-2.2.0

[John covici]

I would just change makeme menuselect so that program does not compile
-- I had the same problem.  This should be on asterisk-users.

on Sunday 08/02/2009 Randall Degges(randall at trixbox.org) wrote
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > This is my first time posting to the asterisk mailing list, so please
 > forgive me if I'm not following proper procedure.
 > 
 > Since that is out of the way, here's what is happening. I've got a fresh
 > install of gentoo (amd64) running here at my home, and I'm trying to get the
 > latest asterisk 1.6.1.1 installed on it with dahdi (for the dahdi dummy,
 > mainly). I compiled and installed asterisk-1.6.1.1, as well as
 > dahdi-linux-2.2.0.2 just fine. When I run ./configure on dahdi-tools-2.2.0
 > everthing works fine as well (here is a pastebin of my ./configure:
 > http://pastebin.com/m60d158c5). The problem is when I actually try to build
 > dahdi-tools using make, I get several errors, all coming from sethdlc.c.
 > Here's the output of my 'make' for dahdi-tools (
 > http://pastebin.com/m1098d5f6). I did some googling, and found that this is
 > a bug with gentoo which has already been addressed in the gentoo bug list:
 > https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=13439 . However, in that thread, I
 > see no fix for the problem. I tried adding the following code to the
 > sethdlc.c file beneath the includes:
 > 
 > #if !defined(ifreq)
 > #define ifreq __kernel_ifreq
 > #endif
 > 
 > But that doesn't seem to help, I just get other errors referencing
 > __kernel_ifreq instead of ifreq (which doesn't really help me).
 > 
 > Basically, from what I've read, this seems to be a problem with the linux
 > if.h file. I'd like to get this working, so I'm hoping some of you guys can
 > help me out with a fix or share some other information that you may have on
 > the topic.
 > 
 > Sorry if this has been posted before, I've done my best to google this
 > thing, but can't seem to find any resolutions yet.
 > 
 > Thanks for your time. You guys have done a great job with asterisk 1.6, I
 > truly enjoy using it.
 > 
 > -Randall
 > 
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