The non elegant solution to this problem is just to copy the netlink into the right directory:

sudo mkdir /usr/include/netlink/

sudo cp -r /usr/include/libnl3/netlink/ /usr/include/netlink/

run again the

./configure

then run

make

Then it builds...

Make sure that packets are installed:

sudo apt-get install libnl-3-dev

sudo apt-get install libnl-route-3-dev