Re: Another final (perhaps) release candidate: Nmap 4.49RC5

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 09:13:26PM -0000, Rob Nicholls wrote:
> Evening,
>
> I took a quick look at the RC5 win32 zip and spotted that bit.dll is
> duplicated in the nselib folder (actually, the one in nselib-bin is dated
> 27/11/2007, the one in nselib is dated 11/10/2007), and that the nselib
> folder also contains pcre.dll (also dated 11/10/2007).

Good catch.  The bit.dll and pcre.dll in nselib are not needed in
nselib/, and I'll remove those for the next release.

> I presume it's safe
> to remove the duplicate bit.dll from nselib, but what's the story behind
> pcre.dll?

Due to linking problems, we had to revert the pcre NSE module into
statically linking libpcre rather than dynamically:

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0085.html

Cheers,
-F

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