Re: Snort refuses to compile with mysql support, but seems to...

[roman () danyliw com]

Could you send us the first couple lines of the
output produced when you ran make so what can
troubleshoot the configure output.

For a very quick solution you could also hack
the Makefile directly:

- for the CPPFLAGS include "-DENABLE_MYSQL -I/usr/include/mysql"
(or whatever directory in which the headers are
installed)

- for the LDFLAGS include "-L/usr/lib"
(or whatever directory the MySQL library is installed)

- for the LIBS include "-lmysqlclient"

cheers,
Roman

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 JSeddon () semtech com wrote:

> Hello fellow oinkers (do snort users have an official nickname?)...
>
> I'm still having trouble.  I poked around in the list archives, the faq,
> and google and couldn't find anything on this so please forgive me if I
> missed it.  I'm trying to compile snort to support loggin to a db.
>
> I'm using the snort.1.8.1-RELEASE version on RedHat7.1.
>
> I installed the linux binary dist of mysql from mysql.org
> (mysql-3[1].23.40-).  It's installed in /usr/local/mysql according to the
> mysql directions.  I've configured it according to the directions from
> incident.org/snortdb but I don't think I'm even getting far enough for that
> to matter.
>
> I run ./configure and it doesn't see the mysql so it doen't compile support
> for it.  So after RTFM'in, i run "./configure
> --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql".  This time it finds it.  Here's a portion
> of the configure output:
>
> checking for mysql... yes
> checking for compress in -lz... (cached) yes
> checking for odbc... no
> checking for postgresql... no
> checking for oracle... no
> checking for openssl... yes
> checking for u_int8_t... (cached) yes
> checking for u_int16_t... (cached) yes
> checking for u_int32_t... (cached) yes
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> creating ./config.status
> creating Makefile
> creating config.h
>
> Looks good so far.  So next I run make.  It finishes so fast and doesn't
> list anything so I don't think it's actually recompiling anything.  But I
> run make install anyway.  So I run snort with no commands just to see if
> it'll get going.  It doesn't.  Here's the a portion of the snort output:
>
> database: compiled support for ( )
> database: configured to use mysql
> database: mysql support is not compiled in this copy
>
> There's where I'm stumped.  Configure finds mysql but doesn't seem to tell
> it to compile it with mysql.  I tried discecting the configure script and
> although I'm sure that's good for me, it might be weeks before I figure it
> out.  I'm not sure how I can get it to compile with the mysql support.  If
> anyone has any ideas, please let me know!
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> James
>
>
>
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