John Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I downloaded this and after trying for about 30 minutes to get it
> compiled, I sent this to the guy who's maintaining the code (I hope it
> doesn't piss him off to the point that he won't help me - grin).
There's a sort of a mindset in the Free Software community, that free
software is not really free.. It doesn't require any monetary input,
but it can often consume substantial time and effort to learn about how
it works, and how to use it. I think that's an intentional thing,
because learning is always a nice goal. :)
I recall that I had some trouble building this software, too, but I
didn't have too much trouble, really.
> ================= msg starts ===================
> Using Slackware 4.0 (beta (kernel 2.2.5), and was wondering if you could
> help...
I'm running Slackware 3.0(something) here. Very old. :)
> 1) The file ipmasqadm-0.4.2.tar.gz (source) does not download as a .gz
> file. It comes across as a .tar file. I changed the extension to
> .gz and it then uncompressed fine.
This can actually a browser problem. Older browsers sometimes recognize
that a file is gzip-compressed, and try to help you out by uncompressing
the file for you. These same browsers, though, forget to rename the
file without the .gz extension! The result, a file named *.gz that
isn't gzipped!
> 2) The README file says to change the Makefile so that it points to
> the kernel source directory. There's half a dozen "Makefile"s in
> the directory structure. Do I change them all, or do I just change
> the one in the root directory?
You only need to change the root Makefile. It passes the setting to the
others.
> 3) The README says to type "make install", but it doesn't say what
> directory to be in when you type it. I tried it in all of the
> ipmasqadm sub directories and it said it couldn't find "target
> 'install' ".
Sounds like you ran 'make install' in every directory except the right
one.. the root directory. This is quite standard for most every package
you build from source under Linux. I would presume that you're running
Slackware because you like doing things yourself. If you don't, then
why run Slackware? You could use a packaged distribution, such as Red
Hat, or Debian. Juanjo was kind enough to include RPM's for his
utility. :)
> 4) Slack 4.0 uses libc5 - is there anything to worry about here?
Nope. I'm using libc5 as well. In general, compiling from source means
you won't have library problems.
> 5) The readme says I need ip_masq-v0.13 over 2.1.90 to compile. Since
> I'm running the 2.2.5 kernel, do I still need to get this? The README
> file is over a year old, so how correct is the information in it?
Not very... It does say later than 2.1.90, and 2.2.5 is definitely
later. :)
In short, I'm running 2.2 with ipmasqadm 0.4.2 on my Slackware system,
and it works just fine. It will for you, too. :)
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