Nmap Development: Re: Compile error on netbsd

[Jay Fink <jay.fink () gmail com>]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:38 PM, David Fifield<david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:27:04AM -0400, Jay Fink wrote:
> > Finally had a chance to look into this some more; David was dead on;
> > the ifconf struct is different on NetBSD;  ifcu_buf  was changed to
> > void * during a core address type cull:
> >
> > struct  ifconf {
> >         int     ifc_len;                /* size of associated buffer */
> >         union {
> >                 void *  ifcu_buf;
> >                 struct  ifreq *ifcu_req;
> >         } ifc_ifcu;
> >
> > As a dirty trick I changed it back and it compiles but still does not
> > send back an iflist, I will work on a macro or something to replace it
> > but I'm not sure why it kicks back it can't find the information yet.
> >
> > Note FreeBSD8 and Linux use the core address pointer.
> I don't know what you mean by "core address." Does the attached patch
on freebsd and glibc ifcu_buf is type caddr_t (or core address). On
NetBSD it is type void *
sorry for the confusion, core address is the long name for caddr_t.

> work? It just casts ifc_buf to a char pointer when we want to do
> byte-level arithmetic. You should try it with unmodified header files.
the patch doesn't work right; I thought it would but it does not.  I
got it to compile by changing the header files but I know that is not
a real solution. What I meant was I am going to keep working on a real
solution;  perhaps redefining ifconf  for NetBSD and OpenBSD.

> David Fifield
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