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Re: [PATCH] Compilation failing without Lua (--without-liblua)
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:45:12 -0800
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 03:42:51AM -0500, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
Off-topic: Wouldn't --without-nse be a better name for --without-liblua? We don't have --without-python to exclude Zenmap after all :)
Good question. We offer three liblua library configuration directives. From ./configure --help: --with-liblua=DIR Use an existing (compiled) lua lib from DIR/include and DIR/lib. --with-liblua=included Use the liblua version included with Nmap --without-liblua Compile without lua (this will exclude all of NSE from compilation) This is similar to how we treat other libraries like libpcre, openssl, libpcap, etc. (though some of them are required and thus don't have the --without version). So while I agree that --without-nse makes more sense by itself, the current option name provides consistency with the --with-liblua options and with the option flags for the other libraries. Also, who knows, maybe Nmap will use Lua for more than NSE at some point. On the other hand, as you note, we do also have options like --without-zenmap, --without-ncat, etc. Overall I think the option name is OK as is. After all, I hope it is uncommon that people would specifically want to remove NSE. It is one of Nmap's best features :). Cheers, -F _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- [PATCH] Compilation failing without Lua (--without-liblua) Brandon Enright (Jan 24)
- Re: [PATCH] Compilation failing without Lua (--without-liblua) Patrick Donnelly (Jan 24)
- Re: [PATCH] Compilation failing without Lua (--without-liblua) Brandon Enright (Jan 24)
- Re: [PATCH] Compilation failing without Lua (--without-liblua) Patrick Donnelly (Jan 24)
- Re: [PATCH] Compilation failing without Lua (--without-liblua) Brandon Enright (Jan 24)
- Re: [PATCH] Compilation failing without Lua (--without-liblua) Brandon Enright (Jan 24)
- Re: [PATCH] Compilation failing without Lua (--without-liblua) Fyodor (Jan 26)
- Re: [PATCH] Compilation failing without Lua (--without-liblua) Kris Katterjohn (Jan 26)
- Re: [PATCH] Compilation failing without Lua (--without-liblua) Fyodor (Jan 26)
- Re: [PATCH] Compilation failing without Lua (--without-liblua) David Fifield (Jan 26)
- Re: [PATCH] Compilation failing without Lua (--without-liblua) Patrick Donnelly (Jan 24)