Conflicting types from kernel-headers and glibc-headers

[Matthias Saou]

Hi,

I'm not sure which package to blame about this problem, except at least
keepalived itself, which wants "low level" access to kernel includes.

This is the real world problem :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228544#c7

It doesn't happen on RHEL4 or FC6, only on Fedora development. Could
this be some kind of de-sync between defines in the headers provided by
glibc-headers and kernel-headers packages?

Even after "forcing" keepalived to not go and include headers from the
kernel-devel package, I still get errors like this :

In file included from /usr/include/net/ethernet.h:26,
                 from ../include/vrrp_arp.h:29,
                 from vrrp_arp.c:29:
/usr/include/sys/types.h:62: error: conflicting types for 'dev_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:13: error: previous declaration of 'dev_t'
was here
/usr/include/sys/types.h:67: error: conflicting types for 'gid_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:27: error: previous declaration of 'gid_t'
was here
/usr/include/sys/types.h:72: error: conflicting types for 'mode_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:15: error: previous declaration of 'mode_t'
was here
/usr/include/sys/types.h:77: error: conflicting types for 'nlink_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:16: error: previous declaration of 'nlink_t'
was here
/usr/include/sys/types.h:82: error: conflicting types for 'uid_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:26: error: previous declaration of 'uid_t'
was here

Should I file this as a bug? If yes, against glibc or kernel?

Matthias

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