Re: Compile error on netbsd

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:27:04AM -0400, Jay Fink wrote:
> Finally had a chance to look into this some more; David was dead on;
> the ifconf struct is different on NetBSD;  ifcu_buf  was changed to
> void * during a core address type cull:
>
> struct  ifconf {
>         int     ifc_len;                /* size of associated buffer */
>         union {
>                 void *  ifcu_buf;
>                 struct  ifreq *ifcu_req;
>         } ifc_ifcu;
>
> As a dirty trick I changed it back and it compiles but still does not
> send back an iflist, I will work on a macro or something to replace it
> but I'm not sure why it kicks back it can't find the information yet.
>
> Note FreeBSD8 and Linux use the core address pointer.

I don't know what you mean by "core address." Does the attached patch
work? It just casts ifc_buf to a char pointer when we want to do
byte-level arithmetic. You should try it with unmodified header files.

David Fifield

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