iptables - Couldn't load target error

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Thursday 20 December 2007 13:49, Saravanan Chanemouganandam wrote:
> Hi vda,
>
> I accept your comment and others that it was not a busybox related issue.
>
> Well, here is my situation.I built a small rootfs for my arm pxa270 target
> board on the host x86 machine using the latest Buildroot. I then downloaded
> & installed iptables(v1.3.8)  using
>
> make KERNEL_DIR=/home/sara/cm-x270/linux-2.6.16
> CC=/home/sara/BuildRoot/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-g
>cc
> LD=/home/sara/BuildRoot/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-l
>d BINDIR=/home/sara/BuildRoot/buildroot/project_build_arm/uclibc/root/sbin
> LIBDIR=/home/sara/BuildRoot/buildroot/project_build_arm/uclibc/root/lib
>
> make
> BINDIR=/home/sara/BuildRoot/buildroot/project_build_arm/uclibc/root/sbin
> LIBDIR=/home/sara/BuildRoot/buildroot/project_build_arm/uclibc/root/lib
> install
>
> command install all iptables into the rootfs under
> "/home/sara/BuildRoot/buildroot/project_build_arm/uclibc/root" with all
> iptables and extension supports are built into linux kernel
> "/home/sara/cm-x270/linux-2.6.16" image.

Yes, but iptable developers meant that option to indicate
_where to find_ modules at runtime!

You need to have different LIBDIR= settings for "make" and "make install".

make LIBDIR=/where/to/look/for/modules/at/runtime
make LIBDIR=/where/to/install/modules              install

If it will not work (say, make install will start rebuilding stuff
due to changed LIBDIR), you will need to do "make install" -
by hand copying stuff. Feel free to curse a lot in the process.

--
vda