From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: build: do not install ip{,6}tables.h Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:06:25 +0200 Message-ID: <488F4E11.8020106@netfilter.org> References: <488F0598.40202@netfilter.org> <488F1C08.1090403@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kaber@trash.net, Netfilter Developer Mailing List To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:51349 "EHLO us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751662AbYG2RGh (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:06:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Tuesday 2008-07-29 09:32, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >> I just realized that iproute may use this, however, it does not since it >> keeps their own internal copy of the header files. Anyway, we should not >> break the ABI because that would break iproute's ipt - actually, I >> remember that such thing happened long time ago. >> So, apart from your addon thing, I don't see any other client for the >> xtables.h and you can also keep an internal copy of it. > > iproute's ipt has been discussed; patchesh ave been submitted by me, > but it was not merged yet. > More projects than just Xtables-addons can use xtables.h -- > xt_layer7 already compiles with it, ipt_ACCOUNT is just a blink away. xtables.h also requires libiptc/libxtc.h which is, AFAIK, a header of the internal iptables' library - not initially intended for external use. Well, after all, it's ugly but it's not that bad as it only allows people use the extension plugin API. I have committed your patch. BTW, do we support C++ extensions for iptables? Hm, really? -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers