LinuxQuestions.org - Ping compile errors

Hello All :-)

My first post, so bear with me!

I'm trying to compile the 'Ping' command from source (on RedHat AS 3), but am running into some difficulties.

I have tried downloading a sourcce rpm, and it seems to install without problems - however, it does not seem to put the full source code in /usr/src/ (it only puts in source for some patches).

I have found the source for the inetutils package, but trying to compile it is where the errors occur (please note i have not modified the source, this is just trying to compile it 'out-of-the-box'). I have posted the errors below, so hopefully someone can tell me how i can get it to compile, or where i can find a copy of the source that will compile :-)

Here goes the errors (apologies, it's quite long):

In file included from ping_common.h:22,
from ping.c:61:
/usr/include/linux/errqueue.h:6: syntax error before "__u32"
/usr/include/linux/errqueue.h:8: syntax error before "ee_type"
/usr/include/linux/errqueue.h:9: syntax error before "ee_code"
/usr/include/linux/errqueue.h:10: syntax error before "ee_pad"
/usr/include/linux/errqueue.h:11: syntax error before "ee_info"
/usr/include/linux/errqueue.h:12: syntax error before "ee_data"
In file included from ping.c:61:
ping_common.h:112: syntax error before "acked"
ping_common.h:112: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `acked'
ping_common.h:112: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ping_common.h: In function `in_flight':
ping_common.h:163: `__u16' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping_common.h:163: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ping_common.h:163: for each function it appears in.)
ping_common.h:163: syntax error before "diff"
ping_common.h:164: `diff' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping_common.h: At top level:
ping_common.h:167: syntax error before "seq"
ping_common.h: In function `acknowledge':
ping_common.h:169: `__u16' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping_common.h:169: syntax error before "diff"
ping_common.h:170: `diff' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping_common.h:173: `__s16' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping_common.h:173: `seq' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping_common.h:174: syntax error before "ntransmitted"
ping_common.h: In function `advance_ntransmitted':
ping_common.h:183: `__u16' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping_common.h:183: syntax error before "ntransmitted"
ping_common.h: At top level:
ping_common.h:196: syntax error before "__u8"
ping_common.h:200: syntax error before '*' token
ping.c:75: syntax error before "route"
ping.c:75: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `route'
ping.c:75: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ping.c:88: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
ping.c:93: syntax error before "type"
ping.c: In function `main':
ping.c:172: `__u8' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:172: `ptr' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:173: syntax error before ')' token
ping.c:369: storage size of `filt' isn't known
ping.c:376: `ICMP_FILTER' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:369: warning: unused variable `filt'
ping.c:407: `__u32' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:407: syntax error before ')' token
ping.c:427: syntax error before ')' token
ping.c: In function `receive_error_msg':
ping.c:538: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
ping.c:544: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
ping.c:545: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
ping.c:547: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
ping.c:549: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
ping.c:550: invalid use of undefined type `struct sock_extended_err'
ping.c:564: storage size of `filt' isn't known
ping.c:570: `ICMP_FILTER' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:564: warning: unused variable `filt'
ping.c:582: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
ping.c:582: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
ping.c:582: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
ping.c: In function `parse_reply':
ping.c:668: `__u8' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:668: `buf' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:692: syntax error before ')' token
ping.c: At top level:
ping.c:824: syntax error before "type"
ping.c: In function `pr_icmph':
ping.c:826: `type' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:832: `code' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:846: `info' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:858: `icp' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c: In function `pr_options':
ping.c:979: `__u32' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:979: syntax error before "address"
ping.c:980: `address' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:1014: syntax error before "address"
ping.c:1030: `__u8' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:1030: syntax error before "flags"
ping.c:1038: `flags' undeclared (first use in this function)
ping.c:1045: syntax error before "address"
ping.c: At top level:
ping.c:1123: syntax error before "addr"
ping.c: In function `pr_addr':
ping.c:1129: `addr' undeclared (first use in this function)
In file included from ping.c:1165:
/usr/include/linux/filter.h: At top level:
/usr/include/linux/filter.h:21: syntax error before "__u16"
/usr/include/linux/filter.h:23: syntax error before "jf"
/usr/include/linux/filter.h:24: syntax error before "k"
ping.c: In function `install_filter':

There are more, but i cut it slightly short for the purposes of posting (the other errors relate to the 'insns' array, and are very numerous).

Thanks for any help you can offer!