Re: Nmap 5.36TEST3 test release

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 04:57:43PM -0800, Fyodor wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 04:27:05PM -0800, David Fifield wrote:
> > I tried building a dynamically linked Nmap RPM and it works (built on
> > CentOS and run on Fedora). What's the reason that it's being linked
> > statically?
>
> The theory was that it'd be more portable :).  Also, we can't
> dynamically link things like OpenSSL or all hell will break loose if
> the target system doesn't have that.  But maybe dynamically linking to
> system libraries and static to everything else would be ideal?

Hmm, that might work. I resorted to something similar in linking Nping
for the Mac packages. I added a separate OPENSSL_LIBS variable to
nping/Makefile, so that I could override it with "<...>/libssl.a
<...>/libcrypto.a <...>/libz.a".

David Fifield
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