Re: [kfreebsd] netinet/in.h origin issue

[Alexander GQ Gerasiov <gq@cs.msu.su>]

Fri, 14 May 2010 13:08:18 +0200 (CEST)
Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz> wrote:

> > There are defined some kernel-specific macroses, e.g.
> > IPPROTO_DIVERT, and some FreeBSD software expect to find it there.
> >
> > But on Debian this header provided by libc, not
> > kfreebsd-kernel-header. And this header could only been found in
> > kfreebsd-headers-$(version) which makes difficult to build-depend
> > on it.
> >
> > I think this should be fixed some way to allow IPPROTO_DIVERT usage
> > in correct way without hacks in sources.
> 
> Please, could you verify whether adding line
> 
> #define	IPPROTO_DIVERT		258		/*
> divert pseudo-protocol */
> 
> into /usr/include/bits/in.h fixes all your needs ?

Yes, but are you sure this is a correct fix for this issue?

Do you suggests to track FreeBSD kernel's netinet/in.h and append
everything missed in libc's netinet/in.h to bits/in.h?

This may be correct from tecnical point of view, but from organization
one this will be a headache to keep them synchronized. I think that
freebsd code should be brought to system with freebsd-kernel-headers,
but you know this better, of course.

-- 
Best regards,
 Alexander GQ Gerasiov

 Contacts:
 e-mail:    gq@cs.msu.su             Jabber:  gq@jabber.ru
 Homepage:  http://gq.net.ru         ICQ:     7272757
 PGP fingerprint: 04B5 9D90 DF7C C2AB CD49  BAEA CA87 E9E8 2AAC 33F1