Re: nmap 5.21, OS X 10.6.2 - doesn't work as root

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:20:04PM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 08:08:01PM -0400, Walt Scrivens wrote:
> > Both were built from source, and the 5.21 was probably built with 10.6.2.
> >
> > Compiling for 32-bit as
> > ./configure CFLAGS="-m32" CXXFLAGS="-m32" LDFLAGS="-m32"
> > does work, so it looks like the problem is back :-(
>
> Nmap r17351 has a patch to libpcap that fixes the problem. You have to
> build with --with-libpcap=included but I'll look at making that
> automatic for 64-bit OS X. The libpcap patch is this:
> http://github.com/mcr/libpcap/commit/43acbb77a8e0b3346b574b3e28793de2d6985e69.

I just noticed that libpcap 1.1.1 has been released. I suggest we
upgrade our included version. I've working on an Autoconf check to
decide when to use our included version to fix the Snow Leopard problem,
much teh same way we prefer the included version if the system version
is older than 0.9.4.

David Fifield
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