Hi, I am installing xtables-addons-1.43 I am getting following error what does this error mean and please tell me wheather i am cross compiling the correct way or not ./configure --host=powerpc configure: WARNING: if you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for powerpc-strip... no checking for strip... strip checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for powerpc-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for powerpc-ar... no checking for powerpc-lib... no checking for powerpc-link... no checking for ar... ar checking the archiver (ar) interface... ar checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... powerpc-unknown-none checking how to print strings... printf checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... no checking for powerpc-dumpbin... no checking for powerpc-link... no checking for dumpbin... no checking for link... link -dump checking the name lister (nm) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes checking how to convert i686-pc-linux-gnu file names to powerpc-unknown-none format... func_convert_file_noop checking how to convert i686-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for powerpc-objdump... no checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... unknown checking for powerpc-dlltool... no checking for dlltool... no checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n checking for powerpc-ar... ar checking for archiver @FILE support... @ checking for powerpc-strip... strip checking for powerpc-ranlib... no checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse nm output from gcc object... ok checking for sysroot... no checking for powerpc-mt... no checking for mt... no checking if : is a manifest tool... no checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... no checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... no checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no checking whether to build shared libraries... no checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking linux/netfilter/x_tables.h usability... yes checking linux/netfilter/x_tables.h presence... yes checking for linux/netfilter/x_tables.h... yes checking for powerpc-pkg-config... no checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for libxtables... no configure: error: Package requirements (xtables >= 1.4.5) were not met: No package 'xtables' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables libxtables_CFLAGS and libxtables_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html