Bug 51059 – net-dialup/ppp-2.4.1-r14 build fails when USE contains activefilter

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mark Davies 2004-05-14 07:57:32 UTC]

The latest stable net-dialup/ppp fails to build when USEing the activefilter option. Compilation error is

demand.c:37:21: net/bpf.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [demand.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/portage/tmp/portage/ppp-2.4.1-r14/work/ppp-2.4.1.pppoe4/pppd'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: net-dialup/ppp-2.4.1-r14 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 86, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

Downgrading to net-libs/libpcap-0.7.2-r1 fixes problem (noticed problem when libpcap was upgraded to 0.8.3).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge net-libs/libpcap
2. USE=activefilter emerge net-dialup/ppp


Actual Results:  
emerge of net-dialup/ppp fails with error

demand.c:37:21: net/bpf.h: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
Successful emerging of net-dialup/ppp

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10
Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.26)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.26 i686 Pentium Pro
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentiumpro -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentiumpro -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo
ftp://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2 -l2.5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/portage/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dfx X apm avi berkdb crypt emacs encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gtk gtk2 imlib
java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell ssl truetype voodoo3 x86
xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2004-05-15 02:39:30 UTC]

I heard of this in gentoo-user.de two weeks ago.

Karsten Keil (SuSE) was cited that the libpcap maintainers had removed inbound/outbound for ppp, because it isn't part of the ppp spec.

It works with 0.7.2 but not with newer versions.

[Comment 2 Mark Davies 2004-05-15 05:25:47 UTC]

The compilation error is caused by the header file net/bpf.h being renamed to pcap-bpf.h in the newer version of libpcap. ppp-2.4.2 seems to have a fix (see net-dialup/ppp/files/2.4.2/pcap.patch) but is not marked as stable. No idea if the thing will actually work properly when compilation is fixed!

[Comment 3 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2004-05-15 06:12:03 UTC]

forget #1, it was about the use of inbound/outbound.
Thx for correction, Mark.

[Comment 4 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2004-09-19 10:12:58 UTC]

Created attachment 39923 [details, diff]
pcap.patch

patch to be included in /usr/portage/net-dialup/ppp/files

[Comment 5 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2004-09-19 10:16:09 UTC]

Created attachment 39924 [details, diff]
modification in ppp-2.4.1-r14.ebuild

[Comment 6 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-09-27 03:47:19 UTC]

added the patch