[netperf-talk] Errors compiling netperf on Opteron running Fedora-9

[Andrew Gallatin]

Rick Jones wrote:
> Rahul Nabar wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com> wrote:
>>
>>> well, since I'm taking wild-guesses anyway... :)  drop the new include, and
>>> comment-out the two typedef blocks and see what happens
>>
>> Newly acquired evidence suggests "not-so-wild", apparantly! :) I got a
>> successful make and make check with the latest suggestion. Now I just
>> need to see if a successful compile will map to a successful run! :)
>>
>> Thanks a lot Rick; appreciate all the help and comments I've been
>> getting from you!
>>
> 
> 
> Now all I have to do is figure-out what to do to support those revs 
> where one has to include other stuff along with linux/ethtool.h to get 
> all the right __umumble definitions...

How about rather than using the ioctl, you just
popen ethtool -i and parse the resulting output.
Otherwise, you're in for some autoconf test writing.

Drew