Compiling NMAP on OSX

["Anonymous" <anon () mail nevadaunderground org>]

found this today in my mail. didnt see on the list.

http://www.macsecurity.org/resources/nmap/
by gdead () shmoo com


article:
NMAP under OSX

NMAP is an 3l33t network scanning, OS detection tool developed by Fyodor. It's super powerful, and in the hands of a 
smart hacker, very dangerous. The flip side is in the hands of a smart admin, it's very good at rewting out holes in 
your network.

Getting NMAP to compile under OSX was pretty easy. The patch I made works against NMAP-2.3beta10, but should work with 
other beta releases of 2.3. If it doesn't work with your favorite version, read the patch files to see what I did and 
try to make it work in your environment. If It still doesn't work, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

First, download NMAP from http://www.insecure.org/nmap/. Grab 2.3beta10 if you want to be sure the patch works. Then 
grab the patch from here. Un-tar the nmap distro using 
tar -zxvf nmap-2.3Beta10.tgz
Then copy the patch file into the nmap directory and un-tar it 
cp nmap-2.3BETA10-osx-patch.tar.gz  \
    /path/to/nmap-2.3BETA10/.
cd /path/to/nmap-2.3BETA10/
tar -zxvf nmap-2.3BETA10-osx-patch.tar.gz 
Then run the patch script and make as usual. 
./OSX-fix.sh
./configure
make 
Everything was dandy for me