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Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] compiler error "redefinition of ‘struct ifmap" somewhere in betw

From: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:09:39 +0100
Probably this :

tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/wireshark $ svn log -r 46809:46827 iface_monitor.c
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r46825 | alagoutte | 2012-12-28 15:38:10 +0100 (Fri, 28 Dec 2012) | 1 line

Fix [ 77%] Building C object CMakeFiles/qtshark.dir/iface_monitor.c.o iface_monitor.c: In function ‘iface_mon_handler2’: iface_monitor.c:101:19: error: ‘IFF_UP’ undeclared (first use in this function) iface_monitor.c:101:19: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/qtshark.dir/iface_monitor.c.o] Erreur 1
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breaks compilation here at an almost stable Gentoo x86 Linux system with :

  CC     capinfos-capinfos.o
In file included from /usr/include/libnl3/netlink/route/link.h:18:0,
                 from iface_monitor.c:46:
/usr/include/linux/if.h:142:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifmap’
/usr/include/net/if.h:112:8: note: originally defined here
/usr/include/linux/if.h:176:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifreq’
/usr/include/net/if.h:127:8: note: originally defined here
/usr/include/linux/if.h:225:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifconf’
/usr/include/net/if.h:177:8: note: originally defined here
make[2]: *** [wireshark-iface_monitor.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  CC     editcap-editcap.o
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tfoerste/devel/wireshark'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tfoerste/devel/wireshark'
make: *** [all] Error 2


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