On 23.03, Laurent Bercot wrote: > > Here is the first mail I sent to netfilter@. > The whole thread can be read at > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.general/47842 Thanks. Seems the reason is that the linker will discard unused symbols and from its' perspective the contructors are unused. I tried experimenting with __attribute__((used)) but it doesn't help. What does work is using -Wl,--whole-archive libnftnl.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive Not sure if we want to take this path, but it seems acceptable to me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html