Re: [PATCH] configure: Show support for connlabel

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On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 02:47:13PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 2016-03-08 14:37, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> >>>> Those are the userspace bits for the old ip_queue support that was
> >>>> removed years ago, since NFQUEUE superseded for many years.
> >>>> You can still cd iptables/libipq and type 'make' to compile the
> >>>> this small userspace library since we have to keep new iptables
> >>>> releases running with old kernels.
> >>>
> >>> This is always compiling libipq even with --disable-libipq, this looks
> >>> like a bug in our build infrastructure.
> 
> If you manually and intentionally chdir to libipq and attempt to built it, why
> forbid it? Having "if ENABLE_LIBIPQ" in the toplevel Makefile.am seems
> sufficient.

That top level "if ENABLE_LIBIPQ" seems fine, I overlooked this.

> AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-libipq], [Build and install libipq])
> in configure.ac is also right, since ipq is build-disabled by default.
> 
> >> Yes. Also, I see that devel should have --disable-devel instead of
> >> --enable-devel option and the appropriate functionality associated
> >> with it. Please correct me if I am wrong here.
> 
> The help texts:
> AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-devel], [Install Xtables development headers])
> should indeed read
> AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-devel], [Avoid installation of Xtables development headers])
> because headers are build-*enabled* by default.
> 
> But the actual option parsing (--enable-devel, --enable-devel=no,
> --disable-devel) that AC_ARG_ENABLE provides needs no change AFAICS.

Right, this is also controled via top level Makefile.am.

@Shivani, please focus on improving connlabel integration into our
configure thing.
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