Need help with a compiling issue!

[jwilson]

This is a clip from the tutorial page:

Select the RFC1483/2684 option in kernel configuration and rebuild the
kernel. Next, get the following BR2684 utility;
http://home.sch.bme.hu/~cell/br2684/dist/pppbr-000713-br2684ctl.c.gz

Unzip and compile with;

% cc -o br2684ctl br2684ctl.c -l atm.

Do you have the correct symlinks in /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?
If your gcc cannot see the relevant .h files the compile will fail.
(Before the patch operation you have little chance, honestly ;)


First of all, I believe they made a typo because the .c file names do not match. (afer you unzip it just removes the .gz)

Anyway, I unzip the file with gzip -d filename, and then run the cc comand from above but I get the error:

1. atm is not a valid directory
2. can't find the header files

Obviously it has to do with the part about the symlinks, but I don't understand exactly what it's telling me to do.

Here's what the header directives look like:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <atm.h>
#include <linux/atmdev.h>
#include <linux/atmbr2684.h>


I'm using RedHat 7.0

Can anyone steer me in the right direction? Thanks much,
jwilson

[ 01 April 2001: Message edited by: jwilson ]

[Lorithar]

Ummms


you need to find out where the atm directory is ..
Since the -I (include) parameter is calling this directory we can expect it to contain the atm.h header file. Sooo ...
find / -name atm.h
will find the atm.h file. the -I atm should be changed to be -I [full path to directory that atm.h is in]

[jwilson]

Actually, it's a lowercase L which is for library.

I guess it's trying to include that library.

It seems as if these instructions have made a lot of assumptions and not even stated what they assume! :mad:

[ 02 April 2001: Message edited by: jwilson ]