dropbear glibc 2.1.3 compile error

[Matt Johnston]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:48:05PM +1300, Miles Roper wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I get the below errors when compiling with gcc 2.95.3 and glibc 2.1.3.
> 
> gcc -I. -I./libtomcrypt -B//lib -Wl,-rpath-link,//lib -Os -mcpu=i586
> -march=i386 -DDROPBEAR_SERVER -DDROPBEAR_CLIENT   -c -o dbutil.o dbutil.c
> dbutil.c: In function `getaddrstring':
> dbutil.c:362: structure has no member named `ss_family'
> dbutil.c:366: structure has no member named `ss_family'
> dbutil.c: In function `getaddrhostname':
> dbutil.c:404: structure has no member named `ss_family'
> dbutil.c:408: structure has no member named `ss_family'
> gcc: file path prefix `//lib' never used
> make: *** [dbutil.o] Error 1
> 
> I done a seach using google and found a similar problem.  Can we get this
> fixed in dropbear?

I'll take a look at getting a fix in for the next release.

I guess for the moment a "typedef __ss_family ss_family"
would be a hacky workaround in includes.h?

Alternatively, if you're just targetting ipv4 on linux,
removing the whole if/else block mentioning ss_family should
be safe AFAIK.

Matt

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Miles
> 
> 
> | ftpd.c:1093: structure has no member named `ss_family'
> 
> This message is because the Linux sockaddr_storage struct member is called
> __ss_family not ss_family, if using configure add "#define HAVE__SS_FAMILY"
> to the generated src/config.h (before the Socket macros), then run make.
> You could also try using build, edit config.h.noac, change "#undef INET6"
> to "#define INET6" followed by ./build lnx should work.
> 
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