Re: errors when using "make dep" for kernel compile

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

Well, I'm not sure why you need this "iproute2" at all.
Can't IPMasq do everything you need?

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com


Jai wrote:
> 
> Hi-
> I'm pretty new to Linux, and i'm trying to set it up as a firewall.
> Through the ipchains mailing list i've got the bits and pieces i need, but
> now i'm trying to assemble them.  I got a utility for manipulating the
> routing tables so that it can do static network address translation,
> called iproute2.  However, this needs compiled.  Here i run into problems.
> I can't find any answers in the FAQs and the kernel HOWTO, so i thought I
> would ask for help...
> 
> When i try to "make" the utility, i get a message saying:
> "please, compile the kernel first"
> 
> I assumed that this was because my kernel (6.0, kernel 2.2.9) was not
> compiled with support for things like network address translation.  So i
> tried to recompile the kernel and when i got to the "make dep step I got
> errors saying:
> 
> [root pmeiw8 linux]# make dep
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep
> scripts/mkdep.c
> scripts/mkdep.c:13: ctype.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/mkdep.c:14: stdio.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/mkdep.c:15: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/mkdep.c:16: string.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/mkdep.c:17: unistd.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/mkdep.c:19: sys/fcntl.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/mkdep.c:20: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/mkdep.c:21: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/mkdep.c:22: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [scripts/mkdep] Error 1
> [root pmeiw8 linux]#
> 
> I tried downloading the new 2.2.10 kernel, thinking that maybe i just had
> a kernel distribution that didn't contain this for some reason?  I did the
> make config fine, as before, but got the same message as above when I
> tried make dep.
> 
> Incidentally, now when i try to make the iproute2 tools, instead of the
> above "please, compile the kernel first" I get a new error message
> (although I have not yet compiled a new kernel, just run through the make
> config step only):
> 
> [root pmeiw8 iproute2]# make
> make[1]: Entering directory `/etc/iproute2/lib'
> gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -Wstrict-prototypes -Wall -g
> -I/usr/src/linux/include -I../include    -c ll_map.c -o ll_map.o
> ll_map.c:13: stdio.h: No such file or directory
> ll_map.c:14: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
> ll_map.c:15: unistd.h: No such file or directory
> ll_map.c:16: syslog.h: No such file or directory
> ll_map.c:17: fcntl.h: No such file or directory
> ll_map.c:18: sys/socket.h: No such file or directory
> ll_map.c:19: netinet/in.h: No such file or directory
> ll_map.c:20: string.h: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [ll_map.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/etc/iproute2/lib'
> make: *** [all] Error 1
> [root pmeiw8 iproute2]#
> 
> 
> Does anyone know why it is that i am missing these files?  I can't seem to
> find them anywhere on my system (using find).  Where would i find them and
> where would i put them once i do find them?
> 
>  Btw, i am using gcc version:
> 
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/pgcc-2.91.66/specs
> gcc version pgcc-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> 
> Thanks very much for your help.
> 
> Jai Nair
> 
> jn pmei com
> 
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