On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Kelley Reynolds wrote:

> I just followed the instructions on www.ipfilter.org for upgrading ipfilter
> with NetBSD. This may be the wrong list, but for the sake completion, how
> would I statically link them instead?

Ahh. The standard NetBSD build system sets "LDSTATIC=-static" in the
"Makefile", but you would probably do better to set "LDFLAGS=-static" in
your environment before building "ipf".

NetBSD does that just so "ipf" can be run before "/usr" is mounted,
in case "/usr" is a network file system. No doubt you have a separate
"/usr", and that explains why it only works in multi-user mode.

> > > 'file /sbin/ipf' reports
> > >
> > > /sbin/ipf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
> dynamically
> > > linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> >           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >           ||||||||||||||||
> >
> > How did that happen? Everything in /sbin is supposed to be staticly
> > linked?
> >
> > > > > /sbin/ipf: 1: syntax error: "(" unexpected
> > > > > /sbin/ipf: 1: syntax error: "(" unexpected
> > > > >
> > > > > when I run
> > > > >
> > > > > /etc/rc.d/ipfilter start
> > > > >
> > > > > from the command line, it works just fine.

Frederick