Re: problems building conntrack and its dependencies from RPM

[Hiren Patel <patelhn telkom co za>]

my only guess is that the rpm build process may be telling the make
process to look for headers in a different location as apposed to when
building it manually. maybe post a bit of the spec file, maybe post the
%build section.

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 15:40 -0700, Adam Monsen wrote:
> I'm having trouble creating RPMs for conntrack (see
> http://netfilter.org) for CentOS 4.3. The dependencies for conntrack
> are libnfnetlink and libnetfilter_conntrack; I'd like to make RPMs for
> these, too.
> 
> First I tried manually compiling and installing all three on the
> CentOS box. This seemed to work fine. The only change I had to make to
> the source was to comment out the line beginning with "URL" in the
> pkgconfig ".pc" files (must be a feature of a newer version of
> pkgconfig). Here's how I built the sources:
> 
> mkdir /tmp/c && cd /tmp/c
> tar -xvjf /tmp/libnfnetlink-0.0.25.tar.bz2
> pushd libnfnetlink-0.0.25
> # manually comment out "URL" line in libnfnetlink.pc.in, then...
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/tmp/ctk && make -j4 && make install
> popd
> tar -xvjf /tmp/libnetfilter_conntrack-0.0.50.tar.bz2
> pushd libnetfilter_conntrack-0.0.50
> # manually comment out "URL" line in libnetfilter_conntrack.pc.in, then...
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/tmp/ctk/lib/pkgconfig \
>   ./configure --prefix=$HOME/tmp/ctk && make -j4 && make install
> popd
> tar -xvjf /tmp/conntrack-1.00beta2.tar.bz2
> pushd conntrack-1.00beta2/
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/tmp/ctk/lib/pkgconfig \
>   ./configure --prefix=$HOME/tmp/ctk && make -j4 && make install
> popd
> 
> 
> Some information about this CentOS 4.3 build system, in case that helps:
> Linux kernel 2.6.14.3 (SMP)
> glibc-2.3.4-2.19
> gcc-3.4.5-2
> rpm-4.3.3-13_nonptl
> 
> Note that, according to
> http://people.netfilter.org/pablo/conntrackd/install.html, 2.6.14 is
> NOT considered recent enough to _run_ conntrack, so perhaps I should
> not be trying to build conntrack with this old kernel, either. I can't
> imagine why that would matter for the build, though.
> 
> 
> And now for my attempt at packaging these in RPMs. As a starting point
> I used the source RPMs available for Fedora 7.
> 
> First I tried building and installing the libnfnetlink dependency.
> With the exception of modifying the pkgconfig .pc files by hand,
> libnfnetlink builds ok, and libnfnetlink and libnfnetlink-devel both
> install ok.
> 
> Next I went for libnetfilter_conntrack. This build fails with some
> strange errors:
> 
> ...
> callback.c: In function `__callback':
> callback.c:12: error: `NFNL_CB_STOP' undeclared (first use in this function)
> callback.c:12: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> callback.c:12: error: for each function it appears in.)
> callback.c:20: error: `NFNL_CB_CONTINUE' undeclared (first use in this function)
> callback.c:30: warning: passing arg 2 of `__parse_conntrack' from
> incompatible pointer type
> callback.c:38: error: `NFNL_CB_FAILURE' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ...
> 
> I say strange because (a)this doesn't happen during the "manual"
> source build, and (b)these constants are indeed defined in an enum in
> /usr/include/libnfnetlink/libnfnetlink.h, which is included of course
> included by the libnetfilter_conntrack source code. This error also
> only happens when trying to build from RPM on CentOS 4.3. Ugh. Any
> ideas?
> 
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