On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 11:51 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 02/07/07 11:12 CST: > > > Okay, how does this sound (in the IPTables instructions in a note > > right before the compilation commands): > > > > [snip 1st version] > > Okay, there's a two-fold issue. > > 1) The existing Iptables instructions say to not expose the build > to raw headers, else the build will fail. This is clearly wrong.
Agreed. It didn't help that the contradicting information in the iptables installations instructions looked several years out of date :) > 2) A sentence or two needs to be included that mentions using the > raw headers to build additional modules (with a caveat that you > *may* need to recompile Iptables if you update your kernel version). > > Does this seem to summarize adequately? I'll just wing it for now, > and if it needs changing, we can do that before the official 6.2.0 > release. I'm going to put this in now, so that I can cut the rc2 > version. Personally I think that's fine. Of course, it should call them extensions not modules to save confusion. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
