Re: Nping build breakage on opensolaris

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:43:37PM -0500, jrf wrote:
> All,
>
> Given recent news, I don't know how relevant this will be, but I tried
> doing a self hosted build of nmap on the following platform:
>
>  SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
>
> And I hit breakage when building nping, I used the following configure
> options:
>
> jrf@opensolaris:~/nmap$ ./configure --with-libdnet=included
> --with-libpcap-included --with-libpcre=included --with-liblua=included
>
> And here is where I hit a problem - I am taking a wild guess that I
> might be missing something or config missed something:
>
> Configuration complete.  Type make (or gmake on some *BSD machines) to
> compile.
> ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: WARNING:  Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir
> setting
> config.status: creating nping_config.h
> config.status: nping_config.h is unchanged
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/jrf/nmap/nping'
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/export/home/jrf/nmap/nping'
> gmake nping
> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/export/home/jrf/nmap/nping'
> g++ -c -I../libdnet-stripped/include  -I../nbase -I../nsock/include -g
> -O2 -Wall  -fno-strict-aliasing   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -DNPING_NAME=\"Nping\" -DNPING_URL=\"http://nmap.org/nping\";
> -DNPING_PLATFORM=\"i386-pc-solaris2.11\"
> -DNPINGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/nping\" -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> ArgParser.cc -o ArgParser.o
> In file included from common_modified.h:101,
>                  from NpingTargets.h:100,
>                  from NpingOps.h:150,
>                  from ArgParser.cc:101:
> common.h:133: error: `u_int8_t' does not name a type
> common.h:134: error: `u_int8_t' does not name a type
> common.h:136: error: `u_int8_t' does not name a type
> common.h:144: error: `u_int8_t' does not name a type
> common.h:145: error: `u_int8_t' does not name a type

That some code is used in Nmap's tcpip.h, so it probably has to do with
a missing header. Please try adding headers from tcpip.h to
nping/common.h until it compiles. The first one to try is <sys/types.h>.

David Fifield
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