This is a bug of sorts triggered on the hppa Debian build daemon auto-builder.
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=iptables&ver=1.2.4-2&arch=hppa&stamp=1007234667&file=log&as=raw http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=iptables iptables fails to build on hppa. Lamont Jones provided a patch that changes the build behavior to use gcc instead of ld for linking. All 11 Debian architectures appear to accept the change. --- iptables-1.2.6a.orig/Rules.make +++ iptables-1.2.6a/Rules.make + @@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ sed -e 's@^.*\.o:@$*.d $*_sh.o:@' > $@ $(SHARED_LIBS): %.so : %_sh.o - $(LD) -shared -o $@ $< + $(CC) -shared -o $@ -nostdlib $< -lgcc + %_sh.o : %.c $(CC) $(SH_CFLAGS) -o $@ -c $<
