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Initial Patches to compile snort 2.9.2 in Solaris
From: Luis <luis.mlists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:43:23 -0500
Hi all: following on this thread, I attempted to make a 'patch' to compile snort 2.9.2 on Solaris (Sparc). attached. did a brief test of uncompressing the original tar file, applying the patch, configure and gmake. it seems to work. (had to exclude the Makefiles and other files that get changed by the build process. also, I did not compile with --enable-ipv6 by the way. (not yet)... also, to compile the daq, here's a patch (also attached) of a small config change made to compile daq-0.6.2 as well.. again, hope it helps someone.. :) Luis On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Luis <luis.mlists () gmail com> wrote:
Yes, I concur with your opinions, but I haven't quite given up yet.. :) snort used to compile cleanly up to version 2.8, but since 2.9, it has had many issues that apparently have not been solved yet. not sure if that is because there are very few people running on solaris, or like the link posted, people just fix their problems but don't ask to make the changes incorporated into the snort build. I've got snort 2.9.2 running on sparc on a test system and am going through 'tuning' the new features right now... the problem is not only with snort, by the way, barnyard2 also has it's issues (sent an email to the barnyard2 list, but haven't gotten any feedback yet). so until I can get it compiled, i'm still using old, crusty barnyard which seems to do the job. unfortunately, going away from sparc/solaris is not an option for us at this time, so we'll keep on trying... :-) Thanks for the comment. Luis On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Castle, Shane <scastle () bouldercounty org>wrote:I am not one of the Snort developers, but I have some experience and an opinion on this topic, so here goes. I could not get earlier versions of Snort to compile correctly on Solaris. Period. If it successfully finished the make process, the resulting file(s) would not run correctly. So, I don't run Solaris any more. YMMV but I gave up. -- Shane Castle Data Security Mgr, Boulder County IT CISSP GSEC GCIH -----Original Message----- From: Luis [mailto:luis.mlists () gmail com] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 14:41 To: snort-devel () lists sourceforge net Subject: [Snort-devel] request for changes to compile snort in Solaris Howdy: just went through compiling snort 2.9.2 for solaris sparc and wanted to make a request to make the necessary changes so that 'configure' will work. as you can probably deduce, I'm no developer... googling found this link.. http://bookmarklust.blogspot.com/2011/11/snort-2912-on-solaris-10x86.html followed the instructions (to add #include "sf_types.h" to a bunch of files..) and it seemed to work.. compiled and created a binary. :-) is there a way that this can be done with autoconf? (configure) on solaris? thanks. Luis
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