Error building nftables on Ubuntu Server 16.04.03 LTS

[Colin Law]

On 19 August 2017 at 21:03, J Doe <general at nativemethods.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently attempting to build the nft user land tool from the nftables
> project [1][2].
>
> On Ubuntu Server 16.04.03 LTS, nft is available via the nftables package,
> however the version of nft that is installed is version 0.5 whereas the most
> current version of nft is 0.7.  While version 0.5 is functional, there are
> some nftables syntax that only the current version of the tool supports.
>
> I am following the instructions on the nftables wiki [3] to build the first
> library - libnftnl - however, I get an error.
>
> $ sudo apt-get install libgmp-dev libreadline-dev bison flex autoconf gcc
> $ git clone git://git.netfilter.org/libnftnl
> $ cd libnftnl
> $ sh autogen.sh
>
> configure.ac.28: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC

Try
autoreconf -i
then ./configure

Alternatively there is the option to install from a ppa such as
https://launchpad.net/~jgraichen/+archive/ubuntu/nftables

Colin