Building Snort on AIX 6.1

[Todd Wease <twease () sourcefire com>]

Snort on AIX 6.1

Contents of aix-stuff.tar.bz2
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$ tar tjf aix-stuff.tar.bz2 

aix-stuff/
aix-stuff/snort-files.tar.gz
aix-stuff/aix.sh

Download, build and install GNU make
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$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/make/make-3.81.tar.bz2
$ mkdir /tmp/gnu-make
$ bunzip2 make-3.81.tar.bz2
$ tar xf make-3.81.tar
$ cd make-3.81
$ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/gnu-make
$ make
$ make install
$ export PATH=/tmp/gnu-make/bin:$PATH

Download and unpack Snort, uncompress files, apply patch and build
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$ wget http://dl.snort.org/snort-current/snort-2.8.5.1.tar.gz
$ gunzip snort-2.8.5.1.tar.gz
$ tar xf snort-2.8.5.1.tar
$ cp snort-files.tar.gz snort-2.8.5.1
$ cd snort-2.5.8.1
$ gunzip snort-files.tar.gz
$ tar xf snort-files.tar
$ patch -p0 < aix.diff
$ LDFLAGS="-Wl,-brtl" ./configure <your configure switches>
$ make
$ make install

Using aix.sh - will automatically do all of the above (results may vary)
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$ ./aix.sh "./configure <your configure switches>"

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