Xtables-addons uses the well-known configure(autotools) infrastructure
in combination with the kernel's Kbuild system.
- $ ./configure --with-xtlibdir=SEE_BELOW
+ $ ./configure
$ make
# make install
--with-xtlibdir=
Specifies the path to where the newly built extensions should
- be installed when `make install` is run. It uses the same
- default as the Xtables/iptables package, ${libexecdir}/xtables,
- but you may need to specify this nevertheless, as autotools
- defaults to using /usr/local as prefix, and distributions put
- the files in differing locations.
+ be installed when `make install` is run. The default is to
+ use the same path that Xtables/iptables modules use, as
+ determined by `pkg-config xtables --variable xtlibdir`.
+ Thus, this option normally does NOT need to be specified
+ anymore, even if your distribution put modules in a strange
+ location.
If you want to enable debugging, use