On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Jamie Pratt wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to compile 1.2.10 on a RH 7.2 box, running kernel 2.4.26. > (The prior version is 1.2.9, no POM or anything fancy, just the default > stuff..) > > I get the following error upon running 'make KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux' : > > cc -O2 -Wall -Wunused -I/usr/src/linux/include -Iinclude/ > -DIPTABLES_VERSION=\"1.2.10\" -DIPT_LIB_DIR=\"/usr/local/lib/iptables\" > -rdynamic -o iptables iptables-standalone.c iptables.o libiptc/libiptc.a > -ldl -lnsl > /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' > /bin/sh: -c: line 1: `if [ -n "" ]; then for ext in ; do echo ".SS > $ext (not supported, see Patch-O-Matic)" ; cat > extensions/libipt_$ext.man ; done ; fi >>extensions/libipt_matches.man' > make: *** [extensions/libipt_matches.man] Error 2 > rm libiptc/libip6tc.o libiptc/libip4tc.o The bug has been fixed in the iptables cvs. The new iptables release will be issued soon. Thank you for the reporting: iptables-1.2.10 was compiled countless times, but the possibility you tripped over never came out for the developers :-(. Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary