xtables-1.5.2 not working

[Filippo Zangheri <filippo.zangheri@yahoo.it>]

Hi,

I'm new to netfilter-dev ml and to netfilter development in general.
Today I'm testing xtables-1.5.2.

OS: Debian "Etch" 4.0

filippo@master:~/repos/xtables-dev$ uname -a
Linux master 2.6.24.3-fz-20080226 #1 SMP Tue Feb 26 15:12:50 CET 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Before building xtables, I removed ip{,6}tables-1.3.6 (which is the version shipped with
my distro until now).

I cloned xtables-{dev,addons} git repos then built xtables without strange parameters:

../autogen.sh
../configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

I can see all libraries were successfully created in /usr/libexec/xtables, all
executables in /usr/{s,}bin, and all header files in /usr/include{,/libiptc}.

Now, all attempts to set an iptables rule fail with either segmentation fault:

filippo@master:~/repos/xtables-dev$ sudo /usr/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
Segmentation fault
filippo@master:~/repos/xtables-dev$ dmesg
iptables[19575]: segfault at 00000000 eip 0804d1b0 esp bfa585b0 error 6

or this kind of error message:

iptables-restore v1.5.2: Couldn't load target `standard':/usr/libexec/xtables/libipt_standard.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Well, that's normal - there's no such library - so after issuing:

filippo@master:~/repos/xtables-dev$ sudo mv /usr/libexec/xtables/lib{xt,ipt}_standard.so

I get the following error message:

iptables-restore v1.5.2: Couldn't load target `standard':(null)


Any hint?
Thank you so much for the great job, and It would be really great if the
official development tree moved to Git.

Best regards.


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