Hi, On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 01:57:45PM +0200, Rob Sterenborg (Lists) wrote: > I'm on CentOS 7 and trying to compile nftables 0.9.6. > > For requirements I downloaded the sources from https://www.netfilter.org/pub > and: > > - I compiled and installed the latest libmnl-1.0.4 in /usr/local. > (./configure && make && make install && ldconfig) > > - I compiled and installed the latest libnftl-1.1.6 in /usr/local. > (PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure && make && make > install && ldconfig) > > When configuring nftables-0.9.6 it says that libmnl is okay, but it requires > libnftl-1.1.7: > > ================ > checking for LIBMNL... yes > checking for LIBNFTNL... no > configure: error: Package requirements (libnftnl >= 1.1.7) were not met: > > Requested 'libnftnl >= 1.1.7' but version of libnftnl is 1.1.6 > You may find new versions of libnftnl at > http://netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/ > ================ > > At the time of writing there is no libnftl-1.1.7 in > https://www.netfilter.org/pub/libnftnl/ so I checked Git. In git there is a > 1.1.7 tag, so I cloned the repo and switched to the libnftnl-1.1.7 tag. There is one here: http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/downloads.html 2020-Jun-05: libnftnl-1.1.7 libnftnl-1.1.7.tar.bz2 : GPG signature (key) : sha256sum 20dbc13f11004aea2c9e479cfb90359cb11fe3446c3140811c18e4ec1648ed8f I just resync the /pub directory so you can also find it there, the robot failed to rsync the folder for some reason. > When configuring, it returns a syntax error: > > ================ > ./configure: line 4141: syntax error near unexpected token `LIBMNL,' > ./configure: line 4141: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBMNL, libmnl >= 1.0.4)' > ================ > > I don't know how to fix this.. You have to install pkg-config.