On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 12:12:09PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 11:06:38AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 12:24 AM Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > 2021-05-06 17:14 (UTC+0200), David Marchand:
> > > > Spotted by sparse in OVS build:
> > > > ../../lib/netdev-dpdk.c: note: in included file (through
> > > > /home/runner/work/ovs/ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_ip.h,
> > > > /home/runner/work/ovs/ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_flow.h, ...):
> > > > ../../include/sparse/arpa/inet.h:22:2: error: "Must include
> > > > <netinet/in.h> before <arpa/inet.h> for FreeBSD support"
> > > >
> > > > This is a check enforced by OVS itself.
> > > > See [1] for some context.
> > > >
> > > > 1: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/b2befd5bb2db
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 89813a522e68 ("net: provide IP-related API on any OS")
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > lib/net/rte_ip.h | 2 +-
> > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/lib/net/rte_ip.h b/lib/net/rte_ip.h
> > > > index 8c189009b0..4b728969c1 100644
> > > > --- a/lib/net/rte_ip.h
> > > > +++ b/lib/net/rte_ip.h
> > > > @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
> > > > #else
> > > > #include <sys/socket.h>
> > > > #include <sys/types.h>
> > > > -#include <arpa/inet.h>
> > > > #include <netinet/in.h>
> > > > +#include <arpa/inet.h>
> > > > #include <netinet/ip.h>
> > > > #endif
> > > >
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > It would be interesting to know exact issue this solves for OVS.
> > > Referenced commit only says FreeBSD "insists" on this include order,
> > > but DPDK and standalone files with these includes build either way.
> >
> > Indeed, I tried building with FreeBSD 13.0 and I can see no pb.
> > This might be something that has been fixed in FreeBSD.
> >
> > Ben, would you have details on this header inclusion order?
>
> Using the wrong order caused a compiler error on whatever version of
> FreeBSD was current at the time of those commits. I think it was a
> historical BSD issue, since I remember running into this for many years
> across multiple BSD versions.
>
> If it's fixed now, we can drop the constraint.
Oh, Mac OS X appears to also have this or a related problem:
commit ff6aa424ef1f46d2d1c468940219e187632ec894
Author: Borja Marcos EA2EKH <bor...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Nov 6 10:32:12 2017 +0100
conntrack: Include <sys/types.h> before <netinet/icmp6.h>.
FreeBSD and Mac OS X require this.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>
