BIRD 2.14

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 10:18:24PM +0200, Maria Matejka via Bird-users wrote:
> Hello Robert,
> 
> On 2023-10-08 21:40, Robert Scheck wrote:
> > Unfortunately, building BIRD 2.14 on CentOS/RHEL 7 fails like this:
> > 
> > > sysdep/linux/netlink.c: In function 'rta_get_via':
> > > sysdep/linux/netlink.c:499:11: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'struct rtvia'
> > >     switch(v->rtvia_family) {
> > >             ^~
> > While I assume that the kernel in CentOS/RHEL 7 is simply too old to
> > support the desired functionality in BIRD, is at least possible to have
> > the change #ifdef'ed (or so), that it builds without the new feature?
> 
> Sorry, support for CentOS / RHEL 7 has been discontinued due to a too old
> kernel version and backwards-incompatible Netlink changes. I think the
> easiest way would be to add a dependency on a newer kernel, e.g. kernel-lt
> which is now afaik 5.4 (supported).
> 
> Or you can try to revert commit d61505b039bf0aa6697e28b2a4e07907c89ba1fb. I
> can't guarantee it working out of the box, though.

Or rather f8bcb037b5b71a19209f1b63d52895c8c34c675b

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