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        <pre>AFAICT, '--prefix' option is not even meant for that. It just alters DESTDIR

variable used for installing. In order to build nftables against a specific

libnftnl installed at $libpath (via '--prefix=$libpath' in libnftnl's

configure), one has to call nftables configure like so:

./configure LIBNFTNL_LIBS="-L${libpath}/lib -lnftnl" \

            LIBNFTNL_CFLAGS="-I${libpath}/include"

But this will cause the resulting nft binary to be dynamically linked. So upon

execution, ${libpath}/lib has to be added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I personally build libnftnl static to overcome this, then I can build nftables

like so:

./configure LIBNFTNL_LIBS="${libpath}/lib/libnftnl.a" \

            LIBNFTNL_CFLAGS="-I${libpath}/include"

This causes the resulting nft binary to be statically linked against libnftnl

and therefore I don't have to adjust LD_LIBRARY_PATH upon execution.</pre>

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