Bug 177978 – iptables does not install libiptc.a library

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2007-05-10 22:10:03 UTC]

I'm in the process of changing linux-igd to use libiptc instead of iptables 
commands. (Can be enabled by a makefile option).
The problem I'm hitting is, that it tries to link with libiptc.

Here is the output from make:
gcc -Wall -g -O2 -I/usr/include -I../include -I/usr/include -DHAVE_LIBIPTC 
-D_GNU_SOURCE -c main.c
gcc -Wall -g -O2 -I/usr/include -I../include -I/usr/include -DHAVE_LIBIPTC 
-D_GNU_SOURCE -c gatedevice.c
gcc -Wall -g -O2 -I/usr/include -I../include -I/usr/include -DHAVE_LIBIPTC 
-D_GNU_SOURCE -c pmlist.c
gcc -Wall -g -O2 -I/usr/include -I../include -I/usr/include -DHAVE_LIBIPTC 
-D_GNU_SOURCE -c util.c
gcc -Wall -g -O2 -I/usr/include -I../include -I/usr/include -DHAVE_LIBIPTC 
-D_GNU_SOURCE -c config.c
gcc -Wall -g -O2 -I/usr/include -I../include -I/usr/include -DHAVE_LIBIPTC 
-D_GNU_SOURCE -c iptc.c
gcc -Wall -g -O2 main.o gatedevice.o pmlist.o util.o config.o iptc.o -lpthread 
-lupnp -lixml -lthreadutil -L/usr/lib -L../libs -L/usr/lib -liptc -o upnpd
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: 
cannot find -liptc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [upnpd] Error 1

From what I can read on other pages, iptables should include the libiptc 
library (it has the headers for it).

[Comment 1 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2007-05-11 21:22:14 UTC]

http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/FAQ/netfilter-faq-4.html#ss4.5

Basically libiptc isn't meant to be a public interface. Maybe we should stop installing the headers somehow....