BIRD 2.14

[Maria Matejka]

On 2023-10-08 23:06, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 10:18:24PM +0200, Maria Matejka via Bird-users wrote:
>> Hello Robert,
>>
>> On 2023-10-08 21:40, Robert Scheck wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, building BIRD 2.14 on CentOS/RHEL 7 fails like this:
>>>
>>>> sysdep/linux/netlink.c: In function 'rta_get_via':
>>>> sysdep/linux/netlink.c:499:11: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'struct rtvia'
>>>>      switch(v->rtvia_family) {
>>>>              ^~
>>> While I assume that the kernel in CentOS/RHEL 7 is simply too old to
>>> support the desired functionality in BIRD, is at least possible to have
>>> the change #ifdef'ed (or so), that it builds without the new feature?
>> Sorry, support for CentOS / RHEL 7 has been discontinued due to a too old
>> kernel version and backwards-incompatible Netlink changes. I think the
>> easiest way would be to add a dependency on a newer kernel, e.g. kernel-lt
>> which is now afaik 5.4 (supported).
>>
>> Or you can try to revert commit d61505b039bf0aa6697e28b2a4e07907c89ba1fb. I
>> can't guarantee it working out of the box, though.
> Or rather f8bcb037b5b71a19209f1b63d52895c8c34c675b

Oh sorry, messed up two commits from the same person, mea culpa. You're 
right, disregard my hash, please.

Thank you for correcting me.
Maria

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Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
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