Re: nmap doesn't compile on Solaris 9 with Sun Studio Pro

[Leo Zhadanovsky <leozh () nbcs rutgers edu>]

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I would prefer not to have it depend on libgcc.so and Sun Studio Pro is
more optimized for our platform.

I am not really worried about the warnings, but the thing that killed
the build is ld. What is this file M that is being passed to it?

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Leo Zhadanovsky wrote:
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> > I am trying to compile nmap 4.20 on Solaris 9 with Sun Studio Pro. Here
> > is my build environment:
> >
> > > PATH="/opt/SUNWspro/bin:${PATH}" \
> > > CC="cc" CXX="CC" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" \
> > > LD="/usr/local/gnu/bin/ld" \
> > > LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib" \
> > > export PATH CC CXX CPPFLAGS LD LDFLAGS
> > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl
> > > for i in `find . -name '*.cc'`; do mv $i $i.wrong; sed -e 's/__FUNCTION__/__FILE__/g' $i.wrong > $i; done
>
> __FUNCTION__ and __FILE__ are C99 macros that always substitutes to the 
> (surprise surprise) function and file (respectively) that they are used 
> in. There's also __LINE__, although that doesn't seem to have bitten 
> you. I have no idea what C++ standard they appear in.
>
> The easiest way to go about this would probably be to add something 
> along the lines of this to a header-file that's included from pretty 
> much everywhere:
> ---%<---%<---
> #ifndef __FUNCTION__
> # define __FUNCTION__ "__FUNCTION__"
> #endif
> #ifndef __FILE__
> # define __FILE__ "__FILE__"
> #endif
> ---%<---%<---
>
>
>
> > It compiles, with some warnings and such, but then it dies saying this:
> >
> > > "nmap_dns.cc", line 849: Warning (Anachronism): Formal argument handler of type extern "C" 
> > > void(*)(void*,void*,void*) in call to nsock_connect_udp(void*, void*, extern "C" void(*)(void*,void*,void*), void*, 
> > > sockaddr*, unsigned, unsigned short) is being passed void(*)(void*,void*,void*).
> > > "nmap_dns.cc", line 850: Warning (Anachronism): Formal argument handler of type extern "C" 
> > > void(*)(void*,void*,void*) in call to nsock_read(void*, void*, extern "C" void(*)(void*,void*,void*), int, void*) 
> > > is being passed void(*)(void*,void*,void*).
> > > "nmap_dns.cc", line 1044: Warning: String literal converted to char* in formal argument fname in call to 
> > > parse_etchosts(char*).
> > > 8 Warning(s) detected.
> > > ld: fatal: file M: stat failed: No such file or directory
> > > gmake: *** [makefile.dep] Error 1
> > > error: Bad exit status from /var/local/tmp/rpm-tmp.5151 (%build)
> > How should I go about fixing this?
>
> Seems like Sun Studio Pro doesn't like pure-C functions being passed as 
> arguments to C++ functions (or something). I'm not vell-versed enough in 
> Sun Studio Pro to give a more detailed analysis, but according to Google 
> it appears this problem shows up for more projects than nmap. Any chance 
> you can use the gnu tools to build this?

- --
Leo Zhadanovsky
Student Systems Programmer
Open System Solutions
Rutgers University
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