khoogc wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Could somebody tell me what I must do to compile ppp-2.3.9?
> Right now "make" craps out with the error:-
>
> ---------------------------------cut--------------------------------
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/ppp-2.3.9/pppd'
> cc -O2 -pipe -Wall -g -D_linux_=1 -DHAVE_PATHS_H -DIPX_CHANGE -I../include
> -DCHAPMS=1 -DUSE_CRYPT=1 -DHAVE_CRYPT_H=1 -DHAS_SHADOW -o pppd main.o
> magic.o fsm.o lcp.o ipcp.o upap.o chap.o md5.o ccp.o auth.o options.o
> demand.o utils.o sys-linux.o ipxcp.o md4.o chap_ms.o -lcrypt
> sys-linux.o: In function `ppp_available':
> /usr/include/sys/stat.h:232: undefined reference to `makedev'
> make[1]: *** [pppd] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/ppp-2.3.9/pppd'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> System is a Redhat 5.2 with
>
> glibc-2.0.7-29
> glibc-devel-2.0.7-29
> gcc-2.7.2.3-14
>
> Thanks
> Richard KHOO Guan Chen
Hello,
I had the same problem, here is the solution the well known "Not a guru"
sent to me a few weeks ago (I hope this time, I will be faster than him
to reply.. :-) )
>>I got the same error and figured it was because I was behind in keeping up
>>the linux header files. It turns out that /usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h has
>>makedev defined in it on the system here. Adding
>>
>>#include <sys/sysmacros.h>
>>
>>to the end of the sys header list in pppd/sys-linux.c made the problem go
>>away.
>>
>>---
>>Clifford Kite Not a guru. (tm)
>>
Regards
Laurent
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