Make problem with conky 1.5.0 and net-tools

C-Sniper · 03-28-2008, 11:02 PM

Hi all,
This week i downloaded conky 1.50 to upgrade 1.4.9 and i ran into some problems during the make portion of the install. i did a

Code:

./configure --enable-wlan --with-x --enable-shared --disable-mpd

Then Make which returned the error

Code:

 make
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/addons/conky-1.5.0/src'
make  all-am
make[2]: Entering directory `/addons/conky-1.5.0/src'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DSYSTEM_CONFIG_FILE=\"/usr/local/etc/conky/conky.conf\"    -I/usr/include/freetype2   -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -Wall -W -MT common.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/common.Tpo -c -o common.o common.c
mv -f .deps/common.Tpo .deps/common.Po
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DSYSTEM_CONFIG_FILE=\"/usr/local/etc/conky/conky.conf\"    -I/usr/include/freetype2   -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -Wall -W -MT conky.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/conky.Tpo -c -o conky.o conky.c
mv -f .deps/conky.Tpo .deps/conky.Po
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DSYSTEM_CONFIG_FILE=\"/usr/local/etc/conky/conky.conf\"    -I/usr/include/freetype2   -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -Wall -W -MT fs.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/fs.Tpo -c -o fs.o fs.c
mv -f .deps/fs.Tpo .deps/fs.Po
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DSYSTEM_CONFIG_FILE=\"/usr/local/etc/conky/conky.conf\"    -I/usr/include/freetype2   -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -Wall -W -MT hddtemp.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/hddtemp.Tpo -c -o hddtemp.o hddtemp.c
mv -f .deps/hddtemp.Tpo .deps/hddtemp.Po
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DSYSTEM_CONFIG_FILE=\"/usr/local/etc/conky/conky.conf\"    -I/usr/include/freetype2   -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -Wall -W -MT linux.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/linux.Tpo -c -o linux.o linux.c
In file included from /usr/include/linux/route.h:26,
                 from linux.c:55:
/usr/include/linux/if.h:120: error: redefinition of 'struct ifmap'
/usr/include/linux/if.h:156: error: redefinition of 'struct ifreq'
/usr/include/linux/if.h:206: error: redefinition of 'struct ifconf'
make[2]: *** [linux.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/addons/conky-1.5.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/addons/conky-1.5.0/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

After some googling i found that it was related to the net-tools packages but i already have the latest one installed (1.60-i486-1). i found someone had a problem like this regarding Snort which required the person to rebuild their kernel headers. I really do not want to have to do that. any other ideas/suggestions as to what might be wrong?

Thanks.

agentc0re · 03-30-2008, 12:00 AM

I had the same problem and so i had to keep using an older version.
I read somewhere about how they patched some headers but it still didn't work, and i definitely don't want to go that route at all.
maybe it might work with current?

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-30-2008, 03:51 AM

It builds just fine if you comment out '#include <net/if.h>' in 'conky-1.5.0/src/linux.c'. And, I just ran it and it seems to be functional. I think they included the wrong or too many .h files and some structs and constants get declared more than once. This fix may break something, but so far I haven't found it.

C-Sniper · 04-02-2008, 08:37 AM

ok. Thanks TexMex i will give it a try.

--edit--
just checked their site and they have 1.5.1 which supposedly fixes all of that.

H_TeXMeX_H · 04-02-2008, 11:05 AM

Indeed it does, looks like this was the better solution, the one they used:

Code:

#ifdef _NET_IF_H
#define _LINUX_IF_H
#endif