Re: nmap4.85beta10 on Mac OS X 10.3.9

[Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel () roe ch>]

Daniel Johnson <daniel.johnson31 () gmail com> 2009-06-24:
> On Jun 24, 2009, at 6:41 AM, sergej wrote:
> > i can only send you last few lines of the configure script's output  
> > where the problem occurs, the patch however is beyond my knowledge..
> >
> > Compiling libpcre
> > cd . && /bin/sh /Users/xenon/Desktop/nmap-4.85BETA10/missing --run  
> > autoheader
> > aclocal.m4:20: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.63.
> > You have another version of autoconf.  It may work, but is not  
> > guaranteed to.
> > If you have problems, you may need to regenerate the build system  
> > entirely.
> > To do so, use the procedure documented by the package, typically  
> > `autoreconf'.
> > configure.ac:17: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required
> > aclocal.m4:475: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
> > configure.ac:17: the top level
> > autom4te: /usr/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1
> > autoheader: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> > make[1]: *** [config.h.in] Error 1
> > make: *** [pcre_build] Error 2
> > [1]    24827 exit 2     make
> >
> > make: *** No rule to make target `libpcre/libpcre.a', needed by  
> > `nmap'.  Stop.
> > [1]    25167 exit 2     sudo make install
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sergej
>
> Mac OS X 10.3 comes with really old versions of autoconf and automake.  
> You'll need to install recent versions of those utilities.

In theory, a release tarball should come with up-to-date
configure script and Makefiles and should require neither
autoconf nor automake to build and install Nmap.  So personally,
I'd consider this a bug in the release tarball.

(Building from subversion is of course a different matter.)

-- 
Daniel Roethlisberger
http://daniel.roe.ch/

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