Re: conntrack-tools not working with DESTDIR

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Kotes wrote:
> when using DESTDIR=/home/user/somewhere (the standard to set a different
> sysroot - see http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html)
> with
> 
> libnfnetlink 0.0.30
> libnetfilter_conntrack 0.0.81
> conntrack-tools 0.9.5
> 
> and configure with --prefix=/ I get a libtool-problem:
> 
> libtool: link: cannot find the library `//lib/libnfnetlink.la' or
> unhandled argument `//lib/libnfnetlink.la'
> 
> .. this seems to have changed with 0.9.4, as 0.9.3 builds without a
> problem this way. building without DESTDIR and with
> --prefix=/home/user/somewhere works as well, but is not the way this
> ought to be done ...
> 
> btw: CFLAGS and LDFLAGS point to $DESTDIR/include and $DESTDIR/lib
> respectively - albeit using
> [LIBNFNETLINK|LIBNETFILTER_CONNTRACK]_[CFLAGS|LIBS] gives basically the
> same result ..
> 
> Can someone look into this and fix it, please?

Strange, this stuff works fine here. I have no clue where the problem is
since those makefiles you mentioned are automatically by automake.

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