Re: ranlib error when building nsock examples locally

[Jay Fink <jay.fink () gmail com>]

Clean checkout works fine.

thanks,
  j


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Jay Fink<jay.fink () gmail com> wrote:
> I was using an svn checkout;
> So here are the steps:
>
> cd nmap
> make clean
> svn up
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
> cd nmap/libpcap (made sure this had built as the examples need it)
> ./configure
> make
> I didn't install at this point because I only needed the libs from
> that directory
> cd ../nsock/examples
> (note that nsock_pcap.c is a file I created, but it compiled fine earlier)
> make nsock_pcap
>
> that is when I hit the error. I can try it again from clean sources
> tomorrow. I see what you mean, something may have just been off about
> the build itself. No crashes... well not yet right :)
>
> thanks.
>  j
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Daniel Roethlisberger<daniel () roe ch> wrote:
> > Jay Fink <jay.fink () gmail com> 2009-06-30:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I ran into this after building an nmap/libpcap on FreeBSD-8.0-current
> > > when trying to compile a test program using nsock in
> > > ~/nmap/nsock/examples:
> > >
> > > [jrf@pradu ~/nmap/nsock/examples]$ make nsock_pcap
> > > gcc -o nsock_pcap -I/usr/local/include -Wall -g   -I../include
> > > -I../../nbase nsock_pcap.o ../src/libnsock.a ../../nbase/libnbase.a
> > > -lssl -lpcap -lcrypto ../../libpcap/libpcap.a
> > > ../../libpcap/libpcap.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index;
> > > run ranlib to add one
> > > *** Error code 1
> > >
> > > Stop in /usr/home/jrf/nmap/nsock/examples.
> > >
> > > I went into nmap/libpcap and ran 'ranlib libpcap.a' and it compiles fine now.
> > >
> > > I am running a FreeBSD 8 snapshot:
> > > FreeBSD pradu 8.0-CURRENT-200906 FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT-200906 #0: Sun
> > > Jun  7 10:31:30 UTC 2009
> > > root () mason cse buffalo edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> >
> > I just tried to reproduce this on my -current test box built from
> > fresh sources csup'ed a few hours ago.  Running configure and
> > make in nmap/libpcap yields a perfectly fine libpcap.a (ranlib is
> > run correctly on libpcap.a as the last step in building libpcap).
> >
> > I succeeded in manually linking nsock_telnet against pcap at
> > ../../libpcap/libpcap.a and I verified that libpcap was
> > statically linked using ldd.
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > FreeBSD cassandra.ustcor.roe.ch 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT
> > #2: Tue Jun 30 00:46:44 CEST 2009
> > root () cassandra ustcor roe ch:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> >
> > What were the exact commands you used to configure and build
> > Nmap's libpcap, starting from a fresh checkout or release
> > tarball?
> >
> > (Your box didn't by any chance crash at some point, leaving a
> > corrupted/empty libpcap.a behind?  I think there was a chdir()
> > related LOR in -current at around the time the June snapshot must
> > have been taken, not sure though.)
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Roethlisberger
> > http://daniel.roe.ch/
> >
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