Bug 223381 – net-misc/networkmanager-0.6.5_p20070823 fails to compile against dev-libs/libnl-1.1-r1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Joseph Turian 2008-05-23 20:43:50 UTC]

net-misc/networkmanager-0.6.5_p20070823 emerge aborts with the following error:

NetworkManager-NetworkManagerSystem.o: In function `new_nl_handle':
NetworkManagerSystem.c:(.text+0x10): undefined reference to `nl_handle_alloc_nondefault'
NetworkManagerSystem.c:(.text+0x2f): undefined reference to `nl_handle_set_pid'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [NetworkManager] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/networkmanager-0.6.5_p20070823/work/NetworkManager-0.6.5_p20070823/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/networkmanager-0.6.5_p20070823/work/NetworkManager-0.6.5_p20070823/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/networkmanager-0.6.5_p20070823/work/NetworkManager-0.6.5_p20070823'
make: *** [all] Error 2


As suggested on this thread:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=25672&sid=05811edc6d5377665315b4af3dcb32c6
I downgraded libnl to 1.0_pre6-r1, and networkmanager emerge'd fine.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-06-26 14:10:50 UTC]

Please use either stable NM and libnl, or both ~arch versions.

The dependency on libnl is strictly for 1.0_pre6, but I added a blocker to 1.1 now.