Re: [RFC][PATCH] use of pkg-config in libnetfilter_*, conntrack, and ulogd2

[KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@sch.bme.hu>]

  Hi,

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02.50, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> >   This weekend I've spent a significant amount of time configuring and
> > compiling the whole libnetfilter_* universe and the conntrack and
> > ulogd2 tools. My initial plan was to install everything under
> > /opt/netfilter, however, the out-of-the-box configure.in files provided
> > with these modules do not make this particularly easy.
> >
> >   So after spending some time trying all kinds of mantras and magical
> > runes to get autoconfuse do what I intended to do, I came to the
> > conclusion that all this would be much simpler if we used the
> > PKG_CHECK_* macros in configure.in. The necessary pkgconfig .pc files
> > are generated and installed anyway, so why not?
> >
> >   Of course this means that to compile these modules one will need
> > pkg-config, but personally I don't consider this a problem. The
> > additional benefit of this method would be that the only thing to take
> > care of is that of setting a correct PKG_CONFIG_PATH, all the include
> > paths and libraries are then found magically.
>
> I like it, AFAIK pkg-config is always in most distros, so this new
> requirement shouldn't be a problem. Moreover, this provides us a way to
> easily maintain the library version dependencies. Since this also
> affects other libraries, I'll wait for Harald's ACK before commiting
> this to conntrack and libnetfilter_conntrack.

  Is there any chance of getting these patches applied? Compiling all the 
necessary libraries from an SVN checkout is still a daunting task for me, 
especially because of the nfnetlink dependency.

  The original email and patches are here:

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netfilter-devel&m=114280711926066&w=2

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KOVACS Krisztian