I found a known bug entry.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/706870

Dig through the comments and see if you can follow along.  Typically, you
need the source then patch it accordingly and rebuild.

Patch: https://706870.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=649446

Hope that helps.  I'm long gone from ipmitool land but am apparently still
on this list :)

--Pete

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM Tony Lonsinger <tl...@mycompclinic.net>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am hoping the list is still monitored and someone might be able to
> assist me. I recently purchased a used 2U Intel Rr2000 server and ran into
> an issue when attempting to update its bios. After a bit of research I
> found the following on Intel's website.
>
>
> https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000058730/server-products/server-boards.html
>
> This knowledge base article describes the issue I am running into and it
> advised me to download the latest ipmitool. After downloading the tool and
> running configure when I then run make I it errors out with the following.
> Unfortunately I am now getting a little further beyond what I am familiar
> with and am not able to decipher what it's getting hung on.
>
> /bin/bash ../libtool --silent  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall
> -Wextra -std=gnu99 -pedantic -Wformat -Wformat-nonliteral   -o ipmitool
> ipmitool.o ipmishell.o ../lib/libipmitool.la plugins/libintf.la
> /usr/bin/ld:
> ../lib/.libs/libipmitool.a(ipmi_hpmfwupg.o):/home/tlons/Downloads/ipmitool-1.8.18/lib/../include/ipmitool/ipmi_hpmfwupg.h:803:
> multiple definition of `gVersionInfo';
> ipmitool.o:/home/tlons/Downloads/ipmitool-1.8.18/src/../include/ipmitool/ipmi_hpmfwupg.h:803:
> first defined here
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:536: ipmitool] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/tlons/Downloads/ipmitool-1.8.18/src'
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:582: all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/tlons/Downloads/ipmitool-1.8.18/src'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:457: all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/tlons/Downloads/ipmitool-1.8.18'
> make: *** [Makefile:388: all] Error 2
>
> I am hoping someone might be able to give me a bit of direction to at
> least get the ipmitool working so I can then attempt to make the needed
> changes to the BCM on the board.
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who is able to assist.
>
> -Tony
>
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