Make bird 1.3.2 failed

[Ruben Laban]

> On Wednesday 27 July 2011 at 08:12 (CET), Alexander V. Pen'kov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:14:00PM +0400, Alexander V. Pen'kov wrote:
> > >    Good day!
> > >    I have Centos 5.6 with all lastest updates(exec yum update).
> > >    And i would like to install bird 1.3.2(bird 1.3.1 installed
> > >    successfuly) but when i execute "make" it not successfuly done with
> > >    result: make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bird-1.3.2/obj/client'
> > >    gcc  -o ../bird nest/all.o filter/all.o proto/bgp/all.o
> > >    proto/ospf/all.o proto/pipe/all.o proto/rip/all.o proto/static/all.o
> > >    conf/all.o lib/birdlib.a -lrt
> > >    lib/birdlib.a(main.o): In function `drop_uid':
> > >    /usr/src/bird-1.3.2/obj/lib/../lib/syspriv.h:49: undefined reference
> > >    to `CAP_TO_MASK'
> > >    /usr/src/bird-1.3.2/obj/lib/../lib/syspriv.h:49: undefined reference
> > >    to `CAP_TO_MASK'
> > >    /usr/src/bird-1.3.2/obj/lib/../lib/syspriv.h:49: undefined reference
> > >    to `CAP_TO_MASK'
> > >    /usr/src/bird-1.3.2/obj/lib/../lib/syspriv.h:49: undefined reference
> > >    to `CAP_TO_MASK'
> > >    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > >    make[1]: *** [../bird] Error 1
> > >    make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bird-1.3.2/obj'
> > >    make: *** [all] Error 2
> > >    
> > >    What is this problem?
> > 
> > This is strange, CAP_TO_MASK macro should be defined in
> > /usr/include/linux/capability.h , do you have that file?
> 
> Yes i have
> [root at ltest ~]# ll /usr/include/linux/capability.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8183 Jul 15 15:25 /usr/include/linux/capability.h

I'm seeing the same on really old SLES9 boxes. Slightly less older Ubuntu 8.04 
boxes are affected too. Ubuntu 10.04 are not affected.

Regards,
Ruben Laban