Jim,
I am running iptables-1.2.11-r3 on my Gentoo installed Cobalt Qube2 and it compiles alright.
If I remember correctly I have tried a higher version which failed on cpu-feature-overrides.h too.
My kernel is linux-2.6.10-20050115 which is in the Portage tree of Gentoo and is based upon CVS.
So far this machines runs for 14 days without a problem.
It runs iptables with shorewall.
Regards,
Tom
Jim Gifford wrote:
I've been trying to figure out why the current iptables fails on the 2.6.9 and 2.6.11 MIPS builds. It seems that a file cpu-features-overrides.h is missing for the Cobalt builds. Are their plans for one, or is there a patch out there so we can get it added. Here is the error message on the IPTables build, I still don't understand why they are checking for that myself.
# ./iptables install Verifying iptables-1.3.1.tar.bz2 Downloading iptables-1.3.1.tar.bz2 Creating Local SHA1 file for iptables-1.3.1.tar.bz2 Installing iptables-1.3.1 Unpacking iptables-1.3.1.tar.bz2 Making dependencies: please wait... Something wrong... deleting dependencies. make: *** [cpu-feature-overrides.h] Error 1 -----Error at Build has occured----- Exiting
This is a headers problem, mainly in 2.6. 2.6 isn't safe out-of-the-box for userland consumption. I've been toying with some 2.6.10 headers from LMO cvs on the gentoo side of things, where we have an "appCompat" patch that plugs up a alot of the leaky holes in 2.6.x headers, but I still have to analyze the patch and add in some mips-specific bits before these headers can be considered remotely sane for even testing.
Those running other distros will probably need similar modifications to their headers to make them userland-friendly.
--Kumba
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