Status of bird project

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> 1. Is a project alive ? Gated is dead, zebra is unstable (IMHO
> - I don't like zebra), quagga is strange fork from zebra. Is only bird
> for linux and its several routing tables support.

BIRD is alive, but very, very slowly, since all people of the original
BIRD team are currently working on other things which have turned out to
be very successful time eaters.

> 2. Are the any plans to include realms support ? (I have a patch from
> my friend, but friend is lazy and he has stoped developing this patch)

Well, what type of realms have you exactly in mind?

> 3. Bird does not configure whith a linux-2.6.x kernel headers (I try 2.6.4 and 2.6.5 but it seems that all 2.6.x hase the same result) 
>
> checking protocols... ok
> checking for linux/rtnetlink.h... no
> configure: error: Appropriate version of Linux kernel headers not found.
> 
> How to fix this ? linux/rtnetlink.h is in its place ...

This should be pretty easy to fix. I'll look at it soon (it's a bit
problematic now as I've moved to Berlin for 6 weeks and the things
haven't settled here yet).

> I have tried to generate a new configure, but I could not. Usualy some
> projects have a aoutogen.sh whitch deals whith auto-tools and other
> prepearing things ...

BIRD doesn't use automake nor any other fancy stuff, so running
"autoconf" should be enough.

> 4. After full upgrade my Slackware to Slackware-current bird does not compile even whith 2.4.25 kernel headers
> 
> m4 -P ../../conf/gen_parser.m4 ../../conf/confbase.Y ../../sysdep/unix/config.Y ../../sysdep/unix/krt.Y ../../sysdep/linux/netlink/netlink.Y  ../../nest/config.Y ../../filter/config.Y ../../proto/bgp/config.Y ../../proto/ospf/config.Y ../../proto/pipe/config.Y ../../proto/rip/config.Y ../../proto/static/config.Y >cf-parse.y
> bison -bcf-parse -dv -pcf_  cf-parse.y
> cf-parse.y:1407.2: syntax error, unexpected "|"
> cf-parse.y:1435.3: syntax error, unexpected "|"
> make[3]: *** [cf-parse.tab.c] ?????? 1
> 
> I think this is new auto-tool or some thing else (I am not a programmer :-))

Can you send me your configure options?

Did you use the original configure script or the one you tried to
generate?

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj at ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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