Subject: Re: [NETFILTER]: Introduce nf_inet_address

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:59:54 +0100

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 16:52 +0900, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> It looks like iptables is fairly broken anyway:
>>
>> make[1]: Entering directory
>> `/home/dwmw2/working/extras/iptables/devel/iptables-1.4.0'
>> Unable to resolve dependency on linux/compiler.h. Try 'make clean'.
> 
> And if I move away the contents of the local include/linux/ directory
> and replace it with proper headers generated by 'make
> headers_install' (which won't be trying to include compiler.h), then I
> get more failures:
> 
> Unable to resolve dependency on ../include/linux/netfilter/xt_u32.h. Try 'make clean'.
> Unable to resolve dependency on linux/netfilter/xt_time.h. Try 'make clean'.
> Unable to resolve dependency on linux/netfilter/xt_quota.h. Try 'make clean'.
> Unable to resolve dependency on ../include/linux/netfilter/xt_connlimit.h. Try 'make clean'.
> Unable to resolve dependency on linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6t_mh.h. Try 'make clean'.
> Unable to resolve dependency on linux/netfilter/nf_nat.h. Try 'make clean'.

Yes, the dependency tracking has always been a bit strange/broken.
The next release will use autoconf, which will hopefully behave
better.