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

[Jai <jn mail pmei com>]

I have a couple of servers (smtp and www) with permanent IP addresses that
need to
accessed from the outside the firewall by anyone, and I'd like to keep
those addresses (rather than having the firewall be the destination of all
requests and forward to the interior servers).

Jai

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Kevin Colby wrote:

> 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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