| FOLLOW THESE STEPS: |
| |
| 0) There may be some outstanding bugfixes or tweaks which are not yet |
| in the official kernel. Those are now (as of iptables-1.2.7) kept |
| in a seperate package, called patch-o-matic. It is available from |
| ftp://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/patch-o-matic/ |
| |
| 1) Next, make the package. |
| % make KERNEL_DIR=<<where-you-built-your-kernel>> |
| |
| 2) Finally, you need to to install the shared libraries, and the binary: |
| # make install KERNEL_DIR=<<where-you-built-your-kernel>> |
| |
| If you are a developer, you can install the headers, development libraries |
| and associated development man pages, with: |
| # make install-devel |
| |
| That's it! |
| ================================================================ |
| PROBLEMS YOU MAY ENCOUNTER: |
| |
| 1) This package requires a 2.4.4 kernel, or above. |
| |
| 2) If you get the kernel directory wrong, you may see a message like: |
| Please try `make KERNEL_DIR=path-to-correct-kernel' |
| |
| 3) If you want to specify alternate directories for installation |
| (instead of /usr/local/ bin lib man), do this: |
| |
| % make BINDIR=/usr/bin LIBDIR=/usr/lib MANDIR=/usr/man |
| # make BINDIR=/usr/bin LIBDIR=/usr/lib MANDIR=/usr/man install |
| |
| 4) If you want to build a statically linked version of the iptables binary, |
| without the need for loading the plugins at runtime (e.g. for an embedded |
| device or router-on-a-disk), please use |
| |
| % make NO_SHARED_LIBS=1 |
| |
| NOTE: make sure you build with at least the correct LIBDIR= |
| specification, otherwise iptables(8) won't know where to find the |
| dynamic objects. |