Re: AIX libdnet-stripped patch

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 05:31:33PM -0600, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 03:23:54PM -0800, David Fifield wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:50:50AM -0600, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 04:24:06PM -0800, David Fifield wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:02:12AM -0600, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > This patch http://code.google.com/p/libdnet/issues/detail?id=23 gave us
> > > > > a fully working nmap-5.51 on AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1.
> > > > >
> > > > > I had thought that submitting it to libdnet was appropriate, but it
> > > > > doesn't appear to be that active.
> > > >
> > > > Could you try the latest Subversion release? I recently did a lot of AIX
> > > > portability work, including merging a patch that was originally by you.
> > > > Here's the CHANGELOG entry for it:
> > >
> > > Ok, I built todays svn on AIX 5.2 with IBM xlc. This is the minimal
> > > patch to get `./nmap -A other-host-on-lan' working.
> >
> > We don't really support building with xlc but gcc. There are some
> > instructions here:
> >
> > http://nmap.org/book/inst-other-platforms.html#inst-aix
>
> That's fine, just ignore the compiler specific part of the patch
> (removal of -Wall).
>
> The most important bit of the patch are the changes to
> libdnet-stripped/src/eth-ndd.c. Even if you apply nothing else, please
> apply that.

We didn't find that part necessary when testing on AIX. Can you explain
more what it does?

We tested building on AIX 5 and 6.

David Fifield
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