fedora compilation problems [Fwd: Re: conntrack compile problem]

I'm forwarding this to everyone since many people have reported libnfnetlink, libnetfilter_contrack, et al. compilation problems at configure stage that are related to the fedora setup. I hope that this helps.

"Será preciso viajar a través de los ojos de los idiotas" -- Poeta en
Nueva York -- Federico García Lorca.

[root@ucarp1 libnfnetlink-0.0.30]# pkg-config --exists --print-errors "libnfnetl ink >= 0.0.25"
Package libnfnetlink was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libnfnetlink.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libnfnetlink' found
[root@ucarp1 libnfnetlink-0.0.30]# echo $?
1
[root@ucarp1 libnfnetlink-0.0.30]# echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH

[root@ucarp1 libnfnetlink-0.0.30]#
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Resolving problem:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH

./configure success!!

libnetfilter_conntrack-0.0.81 compiling -> OK.
conntrack-tools-0.9.5 compiling -> OK.

For conntrack-tools compile need: bison and flex package.

Thank You!!

Maybe you could put conntrack to the Fedora yum repository, solve many people problems..:)

Bye, Sz.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 2007. augusztus 2. 14:38
To: Dobos Szilárd
Subject: Re: conntrack compile problem

Hi,

This fedora thing is weird. I don't have such problems running debian.

I extracted this from config.log:

configure:19860: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libnfnetlink >= $LIBNFNETLINK_REQUIRED"
configure:19863: $? = 0

Could you run the following command?

pkg-config --exists --print-errors "libnfnetlink >= 0.0.25"

and echo $? to show the return value. Something must be wrong with pkg-config.

"Será preciso viajar a través de los ojos de los idiotas" -- Poeta en
Nueva York -- Federico García Lorca.