Re: [xtables-addons] extensions in a non-modular kernel

[Wiktor Kolodziej <wiktor@zhr.pl>]

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2009/12/8 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>:
> On Thursday 2009-12-03 11:54, Wiktor Kolodziej wrote:
>
>>Is there any easy way to compile extensions into a non-modular kernel?
>
> Depends on the definition of easy.
>
>>I've found in Jan's "An Introduction to Xtables-addons" that this is
>>possible, but can you please give me some more info how to do it?
>>What do you mean by "editing some kernel Makefile to descend into
>>xtables-addons/extensions" ?
>
> ln -s ~/xtables-addons ~/linux/net/netfilter/
> echo "obj-y += xtables-addons/extensions/"
>        >>~/linux/net/netfilter/Makefile
>
> Granted it does not stop there, one needs to modify extensions/Kbuild
> because it depends on symbols from mconfig (oh my) which would need to
> be exchanged to obj-y or something.

Thanks for helping with that.
I've created a script that does it automatically.
I'm attaching it if somebody needs to quickly build a non-modular
kernel with xtables-addons.

Wiktor.

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