Re: Compile error on netbsd

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:04:26PM -0400, Jay Fink wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:14 PM, David Fifield<david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:27:04AM -0400, Jay Fink wrote:
> > > I found another issue too also specific to NetBSD but possibly others
> > > the - gnu sed syntax for inserting NCAT_VERSION is not portable; this
> > > happens with a fresh svn checkout; the dirty fix is to install gsed
> > > then alias sed to it; I'll look into a long term fix for this as well:
> > >
> > >
> > > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/foo/nsock/src'
> > > sed -i -e 's/^#[ \t]*define[ \t]\+NCAT_VERSION[ \t]\+\(".*"\)/#define
> > > NCAT_VERSION "5.05BETA1"/' ncat/ncat.h
> > > sed: unknown option -- i
> > > usage:  sed [-aEnr] script [file ...]
> > >         sed [-aEnr] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...]
> > > gmake: *** [ncat/ncat.h] Error 1
> >
> > Does the attached patch fix the sed problem? You will have to
> > reconfigure after applying it.
>
> No that is just the error; I haven't looked into that yet.
> That is a tough one as it only crops up on a fresh checkout :)

I don't understand your reply. There was a patch attached to my message;
here it is again.
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q3/att-0836/Makefile-sed_diff
It looks like the problem is that NetBSD sed doesn't support the -i
(in-place) option. The patch makes it use a temporary file instead.

You can make that target run every time by running the command
        touch nmap.h
before the make.

David Fifield

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