trouble compiling 4.1.0p1

[Chris Buxton]

On Aug 7, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Chris Buxton wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2009, at 4:22 AM, Ruben Laban wrote:
>> On Friday 07 August 2009 at 09:07 (CET), Chris Buxton wrote:
>>> I'm having a devil of a time compiling DHCP 4.1.0p1 on Ubuntu Linux.
>>> It's a stock install of Ubuntu 9.04 (32-bit). The toolchain is the
>>> standard for this distro version, based around gcc-4.3.3.
>>>
>>> Here's what I'm executing:
>>>
>>>     ./configure \
>>>         --prefix=/usr \
>>>         --sysconfdir=/etc \
>>>         --localstatedir=/var \
>>>         --with-srv-lease-file=/var/dhcp4/dhcpd.leases \
>>>         --with-srv6-lease-file=/var/dhcp4/dhcpd6.leases \
>>>         --with-cli-lease-file=/var/dhcp4/dhclient.leases \
>>>         --with-cli6-lease-file=/var/dhcp4/dhclient6.leases
>>>     make
>>
>> I ran into this as well. After lots of searching on google I found  
>> the
>> following solution/workaround:
>>
>> CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE" ./configure --your-params
>> make
>>
>> This results in a successful built for me. Been meaning to give it  
>> a try to
>> package it for Debian/Ubuntu, but haven't had the time yet.
>
> Thanks for the tip. While that does work, setting CFLAGS means you  
> completely override the default CFLAGS (-g -O2  -Wall -Werror -fno- 
> strict-aliasing) with the new value (-D_GNU_SOURCE). I'm  
> uncomfortable with this.
>
> I'll give the beta version a try, as suggested by Luka.

Just to follow up, the beta version appears to work perfectly.

Chris Buxton
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