Bug#271513: linux/if.h incomplete type

[Maik Hentsche <maik@mm-double.de>]

Package: linux-kernel-headers
Version: 2.5.999-test7-bk-17

I tried to compile the following program

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#include <linux/if.h>

int main()
{
  return(0);
}

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This fails with the following errors:

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In file included from iftest.c:1:
/usr/include/linux/if.h:136: error: field `ifru_addr' has incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/if.h:137: error: field `ifru_dstaddr' has incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/if.h:138: error: field `ifru_broadaddr' has incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/if.h:139: error: field `ifru_netmask' has incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/if.h:140: error: field `ifru_hwaddr' has incomplete type

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I invoked the compiler with gcc iftest.c and expected it to report no errors,
but return quitely instead.

These are the version of packages, that might be connected to this problem.

linux-kernel-headers: 2.5.999-test7-bk-17
libc6 : 2.3.2.ds1-16
gcc -v : Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.4/specs
         Configured with: ../src/configure -v
         --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang
         --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
         --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared
         --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext
         --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug
         --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc
         i486-linux
         Thread model: posix
         gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-9)
uname -a : Linux n30clfd1 2.4.19-k7 #1 Tue Nov 19 03:01:13 EST 2002 i686
           GNU/Linux


I found this file by searching in /usr/include for "struct ifreq", since the
very very scanty documentation in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt mentions this struct in a
codeexample.

so long
Maik