Re: Fwd: nmap compiler error

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:39:10AM -0500, Ron wrote:
> Sometime since yesterday morning, the Nmap SVN started failing to  
> compile on one of our systems. It looks like a 'const' is being misused.  
> We are going to fix it locally, for now, but it'll be a hackjob.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:      nmap compiler error
> Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:17:36 -0500
> From:         <Andrew>
> To:   <ron () skullsecurity net>
>
>
>
>  From r15104 checked out just now,
>
> …
>
> g++ -c -Iliblua -Ilibdnet-stripped/include -Ilibpcre -Ilibpcap -Inbase
> -Insock/ include -g -O2 -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -DNMAP_NAME=\"Nmap\" -DNMAP_URL=\"http://nmap.org\";
> -DNMAP_PLATFORM=\"i686-pc-linux-gnu\" -DNMAPDATA
> DIR=\"/usr/local/share/nmap\" -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 nse_ssl_cert.cc -o
> nse_ssl_cer t.o
>
> nse_ssl_cert.cc: In function `int l_get_ssl_certificate(lua_State*)':
>
> nse_ssl_cert.cc:376: error: invalid conversion from `const SSL*' to `SSL*'
>
> nse_ssl_cert.cc:376: error: initializing argument 1 of `X509*
> SSL_get_peer_cer tificate(SSL*)'
>
> make[1]: *** [nse_ssl_cert.o] Error 1
>
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/aorr/nmap'
>
> make: *** [all] Error 2

Thanks, this should be fixed in r15105. What version of OpenSSL is on
the machine? With 0.9.8k, in /usr/include/openssl.h I have

X509 *  SSL_get_peer_certificate(const SSL *s);

Probably in an earlier version there's no "const" there.

David Fifield

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