[Xorp-users] Compiling Xorp on Slackware

Adam Greenhalgh a.greenhalgh at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Mon Jan 22 12:43:32 PST 2007


This looks like the kernel headers haven't been installed by
slackware, you may need to add another package.

Adam

On 1/22/07, Pavlin Radoslavov <pavlin at icir.org> wrote:
> > Thank you for a great application. I've been playing with it and every time
> > I run across something new and get impressed all over again. Like Ross from
> > earlier, I am also ambitious and took on the challenge to try and make Xorp
> > run on slackware. I run into a few problems, for which I need to be pointed
> > in the right direction. Firstly, during the ./configure process it reports
> > not to find any of the following files. I know that some of these are
> > specific to certain distros,is this xorps way of determining what distro it
> > is being compiled on or are there dependencies that I need to search for?
> >
> > nd.h
> > if_dl.h
> > if_media.h
> > if_types.h
> > if_var.h
> > sockio.h
> > linker.h
> > mroute6.h
> > ethernet.h
> > if_ether.h
> > vfork.h
> > ip.h
> > ip_mroute.h
> > in6_var.h
> > nd6.h
> > ip6_mroute.h
> > pim.h
>
> It is normal that ./configure doesn't find some header files, so it
> doesn't mean there is an error.
>
> The purpose of ./configure is to find various info about the OS and
> then conditionally define the corresponding tags (later used by the
> source code), so all the messages/warnings printed by ./configure
> indicate what was/wasn't found about the system.
>
> If there was any compilation error (after you execute "gmake"),
> please include that error.
>
> Regards,
> Pavlin
>
> >
> >
> > I realise that these might be header files but have been unsuccessful in
> > determining where they fit in.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Hugo
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