Re: Compilation issues

[Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>]

You have to Œmkdir /usr/local/include/net¹ then run Œmake incl-install¹ in
the libpcap source directory to get the header files to install.  (yes, the
installer should create that directory for you, but it doesn¹t)

     -Marty

On 1/31/02 5:42 PM, "Justin Ferguson" <jnfergu () mainex1 asu edu> wrote:

> hi, Ok- so it seems to be an ongoing problem (at least of late?) as to why
> snort's configure script detects certain os's as win32. I'm on solaris 8, and
> it does it (1.8.3), as does 1.8.4-beta1, but the daily build does not,
> although it still errors out on make (
>
> It seems that snort cant find pcap.h and its all downhill from there, i have
> libpcap installed,
> but all it seems to install is libpcap.a ??
>
> anyone experience something similar?
>
> checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> /export/home/remote/snort/missing: Unknown `--run' option
> Try `/export/home/remote/snort/missing --help' for more information
> configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for nawk... nawk
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for executable suffix...
> checking for object suffix... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking dependency style of gcc... none
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) none
> checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
> checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
> checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
> grep: illegal option -- q
> Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking for sys/sockio.h... yes
> checking for paths.h... no
> checking for inet_ntoa in -lnsl... yes
> checking for socket in -lsocket... yes
> checking whether printf must be declared... no
> checking whether fprintf must be declared... no
> checking whether syslog must be declared... no
> checking whether puts must be declared... no
> checking whether fputs must be declared... no
> checking whether fputc must be declared... no
> checking whether fopen must be declared... no
> checking whether fclose must be declared... no
> checking whether fwrite must be declared... no
> checking whether fflush must be declared... no
> checking whether getopt must be declared... no
> checking whether bzero must be declared... no
> checking whether bcopy must be declared... no
> checking whether memset must be declared... no
> checking whether strtol must be declared... no
> checking whether strcasecmp must be declared... no
> checking whether strncasecmp must be declared... no
> checking whether strerror must be declared... no
> checking whether perror must be declared... no
> checking whether socket must be declared... no
> checking whether sendto must be declared... no
> checking whether vsnprintf must be declared... no
> checking whether snprintf must be declared... no
> checking whether strtoul must be declared... no
> checking for snprintf... yes
> checking for strlcpy... yes
> checking for strlcat... yes
> checking for strerror... yes
> checking for floor in -lm... yes
> checking for pcap_datalink in -lpcap... yes
> checking for u_int8_t... no
> checking for u_int16_t... no
> checking for u_int32_t... no
> checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating src/Makefile
> config.status: creating src/detection-plugins/Makefile
> config.status: creating src/output-plugins/Makefile
> config.status: creating src/preprocessors/Makefile
> config.status: creating doc/Makefile
> config.status: creating etc/Makefile
> config.status: creating rules/Makefile
> config.status: creating templates/Makefile
> config.status: creating config.h
> bash-2.03# make 
> make  all-recursive
> Making all in src
> Making all in output-plugins
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../src
> -I../../src/output-plugins -I../../src/detection-plugins
> -I../../src/preprocessors  -DBSD_COMP  -g -O2 -Wa
>
> ll -c spo_alert_fast.c
> In file included from spo_alert_fast.h:27,
>                  from spo_alert_fast.c:37:
> ../../src/snort.h:31:18: pcap.h: No such file or directory
> ../../src/snort.h:32:21: net/bpf.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from spo_alert_fast.h:27,
>                  from spo_alert_fast.c:37:
> ../../src/snort.h:66:25: pcap-namedb.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from ../../src/snort.h:192,
>                  from spo_alert_fast.h:27,
>                  from spo_alert_fast.c:37:
> ../../src/decode.h:30:18: pcap.h: Error 0
> In file included from ../../src/snort.h:192,
>                  from spo_alert_fast.h:27,
>                  from spo_alert_fast.c:37:
> ../../src/decode.h:48:25: pcap-namedb.h: Error 0
> In file included from ../../src/plugbase.h:64,
>                  from ../../src/snort.h:313,
>                  from spo_alert_fast.h:27,
>                  from spo_alert_fast.c:37:
> spo_log_tcpdump.h:35: parse error before "pcap_dumper_t"
> spo_log_tcpdump.h:35: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
> spo_log_tcpdump.h:37: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of
> `LogTcpdumpData' 
> spo_log_tcpdump.h:37: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> spo_log_tcpdump.h:42: parse error before '*' token
> spo_log_tcpdump.h:42: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of
> `ParseTcpdumpArgs'
> spo_log_tcpdump.h:42: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> spo_log_tcpdump.h:44: parse error before '*' token
> In file included from ../../src/plugbase.h:69,
>                  from ../../src/snort.h:313,
>                  from spo_alert_fast.h:27,
>                  from spo_alert_fast.c:37:
> spo_alert_unixsock.h:41: field `pkth' has incomplete type
> spo_alert_unixsock.h:55: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
> *** Error code 1 
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `spo_alert_fast.o'
> Current working directory /export/home/remote/snort/src/output-plugins
> *** Error code 1 
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
> Current working directory /export/home/remote/snort/src
> *** Error code 1 
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
> Current working directory /export/home/remote/snort
> *** Error code 1 
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive-am'
> bash-2.03# 


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