Re: cant install honeyd on redhat 9

[Niels Provos <provos () citi umich edu>]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 09:31:31PM -0500, JAMIE CRAWFORD wrote:
> I am too having the exact same problem. I have tried to install the
> latest honeyd (honeyd-0.8b) on redhat 7.3, and fedora core2. Both end up
> with the same error (checking for working addr_cmp in libdnet...
> configure: error: you need to install a more recent version of libdnet
> ).  Ive installed libdnet (libdnet-1.8) with no errors, along with
> libevent (libevent-0.8) with no errors.  This is driving me nuts.  I
> noticed on honeyd.org that it says that Honeyd should compile and run on
> *BSD systems, GNU/Linux and Solaris.  Well if anyone has a clue how to
> fix this let me know. I'm going to install freebsd now, and if that
> doesn't work, I'll go the 2k server route.

First of all.  Honeyd should compile with libdnet-0.8.  Please check
your config.log to see what the actual error message is, there might
be problems to get the test program to compile.

Niels.