On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:05:46PM +0200, Giuseppe Longo wrote:
> iptables building is broken if libnftnl is not installed
> on the system, raising up the following errors:
>
> nft-shared.c:25:27: fatal error: libnftnl/rule.h: No such file or directory
> #include <libnftnl/rule.h>
> ^
> compilation terminated.
> nft.c:41:28: fatal error: libnftnl/table.h: No such file or directory
> #include <libnftnl/table.h>
> ^
> compilation terminated.
> mv -f .deps/xtables_multi-iptables-restore.Tpo .deps/xtables_multi-iptables-restore.Po
> In file included from nft.h:5:0,
> from nft-ipv6.c:25:
> nft-shared.h:6:27: fatal error: libnftnl/rule.h: No such file or directory
> #include <libnftnl/rule.h>
> ^
> mv -f .deps/xtables_multi-xshared.Tpo .deps/xtables_multi-xshared.Po
> compilation terminated.
> In file included from nft.h:5:0,
> from nft-ipv4.c:26:
> nft-shared.h:6:27: fatal error: libnftnl/rule.h: No such file or directory
> #include <libnftnl/rule.h>
>
> configure script checks if libnftnl is installed, but doesn't
> exit if it is not.
>
> Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Longo <giuseppelng@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> configure.ac | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 33a8f2d..b08ecca 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -128,6 +128,13 @@ if test "x$enable_nftables" = "xyes"; then
>
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES([libnftnl], [libnftnl >= 1.0.5], [nftables=1], [nftables=0])
>
> + if test "$nftables" = 0;
> + then
> + echo "*** Error: No suitable libnftnl found. ***"
> + echo " Please install the 'libnftnl' package."
I'm going to take this patch, but mangle it to include this information too:
echo " Or consider --disable-nftables to skip "
echo " iptables-compat over nftables support."
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