Re: Fixing Linux support in IPFilter

Ross Cameron wrote:
> Hi there all
> 
> Got a quick Q which will hopefully be quicker to ask than to do some 
> reading in the code (yes I'm feeling a bit lazy today).
> 
> Does anyone (this is probably supposed to be addressed to Darren) know 
> how the "linuxm.c" file is constructed when you run "make linux"  ????
>     It isn't shipped in the source and it looks like it is made by 
> taking input from IPF source and some of the Linux kernel headers and 
> merging them in some way (hope I'm not way off course here lol).
>     Any pointers as to in which Makefile all the instructions for this 
> are so that I can look into patching some compile errors I get against 
> the *VANILLA* source tree of the Linux kernel.
> 
> Many thanks,...
> Ross Cameron
Hi Ross,

Not sure if this is right but in Linux/Makefile.kbuild there is

$(obj)/$(CPUDIR)/linuxm.c $(obj)//linuxm.c: $(TOP)/linux.c
        @if [ ! -h $@ ] ; then ln -s $< $@; fi

which looks like it is creating a ln from the ipfilter dir linux.c to linuxm.c

Steve