Compiling nft-0.9.6

Compiling nft-0.9.6

[Rob Sterenborg (Lists)]

I'm on CentOS 7 and trying to compile nftables 0.9.6.

For requirements I downloaded the sources from 
https://www.netfilter.org/pub and:

- I compiled and installed the latest libmnl-1.0.4 in /usr/local.
   (./configure && make && make install && ldconfig)

- I compiled and installed the latest libnftl-1.1.6 in /usr/local.
   (PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure && make && make 
install && ldconfig)

When configuring nftables-0.9.6 it says that libmnl is okay, but it 
requires libnftl-1.1.7:

================
checking for LIBMNL... yes
checking for LIBNFTNL... no
configure: error: Package requirements (libnftnl >= 1.1.7) were not met:

Requested 'libnftnl >= 1.1.7' but version of libnftnl is 1.1.6
You may find new versions of libnftnl at 
http://netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/
================

At the time of writing there is no libnftl-1.1.7 in 
https://www.netfilter.org/pub/libnftnl/ so I checked Git. In git there 
is a 1.1.7 tag, so I cloned the repo and switched to the libnftnl-1.1.7 tag.

When configuring, it returns a syntax error:

================
./configure: line 4141: syntax error near unexpected token `LIBMNL,'
./configure: line 4141: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBMNL, libmnl >= 1.0.4)'
================

I don't know how to fix this..
Is there something I can do to be able to compile nftables-0.9.6?

The most recent nftables I was able to compile is 0.9.3 with 
libmnl-1.0.4 and libnft-1.1.6.


Thanks,
Rob

Re: Compiling nft-0.9.6

[Pablo Neira Ayuso]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 01:57:45PM +0200, Rob Sterenborg (Lists) wrote:
> I'm on CentOS 7 and trying to compile nftables 0.9.6.
> 
> For requirements I downloaded the sources from https://www.netfilter.org/pub
> and:
> 
> - I compiled and installed the latest libmnl-1.0.4 in /usr/local.
>   (./configure && make && make install && ldconfig)
> 
> - I compiled and installed the latest libnftl-1.1.6 in /usr/local.
>   (PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure && make && make
> install && ldconfig)
> 
> When configuring nftables-0.9.6 it says that libmnl is okay, but it requires
> libnftl-1.1.7:
> 
> ================
> checking for LIBMNL... yes
> checking for LIBNFTNL... no
> configure: error: Package requirements (libnftnl >= 1.1.7) were not met:
> 
> Requested 'libnftnl >= 1.1.7' but version of libnftnl is 1.1.6
> You may find new versions of libnftnl at
> http://netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/
> ================
> 
> At the time of writing there is no libnftl-1.1.7 in
> https://www.netfilter.org/pub/libnftnl/ so I checked Git. In git there is a
> 1.1.7 tag, so I cloned the repo and switched to the libnftnl-1.1.7 tag.

There is one here:

http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/downloads.html

2020-Jun-05: libnftnl-1.1.7

libnftnl-1.1.7.tar.bz2 : GPG signature (key) : sha256sum 20dbc13f11004aea2c9e479cfb90359cb11fe3446c3140811c18e4ec1648ed8f 

I just resync the /pub directory so you can also find it there, the
robot failed to rsync the folder for some reason.

> When configuring, it returns a syntax error:
> 
> ================
> ./configure: line 4141: syntax error near unexpected token `LIBMNL,'
> ./configure: line 4141: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBMNL, libmnl >= 1.0.4)'
> ================
> 
> I don't know how to fix this..

You have to install pkg-config.

Re: Compiling nft-0.9.6

[Rob Sterenborg (Lists)]

On 27-09-2020 14:21, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 01:57:45PM +0200, Rob Sterenborg (Lists) wrote:
>> I'm on CentOS 7 and trying to compile nftables 0.9.6.
>>
>> For requirements I downloaded the sources from https://www.netfilter.org/pub
>> and:
>>
>> - I compiled and installed the latest libmnl-1.0.4 in /usr/local.
>>    (./configure && make && make install && ldconfig)
>>
>> - I compiled and installed the latest libnftl-1.1.6 in /usr/local.
>>    (PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure && make && make
>> install && ldconfig)
>>
>> When configuring nftables-0.9.6 it says that libmnl is okay, but it requires
>> libnftl-1.1.7:
>>
>> ================
>> checking for LIBMNL... yes
>> checking for LIBNFTNL... no
>> configure: error: Package requirements (libnftnl >= 1.1.7) were not met:
>>
>> Requested 'libnftnl >= 1.1.7' but version of libnftnl is 1.1.6
>> You may find new versions of libnftnl at
>> http://netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/
>> ================
>>
>> At the time of writing there is no libnftl-1.1.7 in
>> https://www.netfilter.org/pub/libnftnl/ so I checked Git. In git there is a
>> 1.1.7 tag, so I cloned the repo and switched to the libnftnl-1.1.7 tag.
> 
> There is one here:
> 
> http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/downloads.html
> 
> 2020-Jun-05: libnftnl-1.1.7
> 
> libnftnl-1.1.7.tar.bz2 : GPG signature (key) : sha256sum 20dbc13f11004aea2c9e479cfb90359cb11fe3446c3140811c18e4ec1648ed8f
> 
> I just resync the /pub directory so you can also find it there, the
> robot failed to rsync the folder for some reason.
> 
>> When configuring, it returns a syntax error:
>>
>> ================
>> ./configure: line 4141: syntax error near unexpected token `LIBMNL,'
>> ./configure: line 4141: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBMNL, libmnl >= 1.0.4)'
>> ================
>>
>> I don't know how to fix this..
> 
> You have to install pkg-config.

I found posts mentioning this so I checked to be sure. pkg-config was 
already installed, and also updating it to the latest version didn't help.

Thanks for this. I just successfully compiled and installed 
libnftl-1.1.7 and  nftables-0.9.6.