Initial Patches to compile snort 2.9.2 in Solaris

[Luis <luis.mlists () gmail com>]

Hi all:

following on this thread, I attempted to make a 'patch' to compile snort
2.9.2 on Solaris (Sparc).   attached.

did a brief test of uncompressing the original tar file, applying the
patch, configure and gmake.  it seems to work. (had to exclude the
Makefiles and other files that get changed by the build process.   also, I
did not compile with --enable-ipv6 by the way. (not yet)...

also, to compile the daq, here's a patch (also attached) of a small config
change made to compile daq-0.6.2 as well..


again, hope it helps someone.. :)


Luis


On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Luis <luis.mlists () gmail com> wrote:

> Yes, I concur with your opinions, but I haven't quite given up yet.. :)
>
> snort used to compile cleanly up to version 2.8, but since 2.9, it has had
> many issues that apparently have not been solved yet.   not sure if that is
> because there are very few people running on solaris, or  like the link
> posted, people just fix their problems but don't ask to make the changes
> incorporated into the snort build.
>
> I've got snort 2.9.2 running on sparc on a test system and am going
> through 'tuning' the new features right now...
>
> the problem is not only with snort, by the way, barnyard2 also has it's
> issues (sent an email to the barnyard2 list, but haven't gotten any
> feedback yet).  so until I can get it compiled, i'm still using old, crusty
> barnyard  which seems to do the job.
>
> unfortunately, going away from sparc/solaris is not an option for us at
> this time, so we'll keep on trying...
>
> :-)
>
> Thanks for the comment.
>
>
> Luis
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Castle, Shane <scastle () bouldercounty org>wrote:
>
> > I am not one of the Snort developers, but I have some experience and an
> > opinion on this topic, so here goes.
> >
> > I could not get earlier versions of Snort to compile correctly on
> > Solaris. Period. If it successfully finished the make process, the
> > resulting file(s) would not run correctly. So, I don't run Solaris any more.
> >
> > YMMV but I gave up.
> >
> > --
> > Shane Castle
> > Data Security Mgr, Boulder County IT
> > CISSP GSEC GCIH
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Luis [mailto:luis.mlists () gmail com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 14:41
> > To: snort-devel () lists sourceforge net
> > Subject: [Snort-devel] request for changes to compile snort in Solaris
> >
> > Howdy:
> >
> > just went through compiling snort 2.9.2 for solaris sparc and wanted to
> > make a request to make the necessary changes so that 'configure' will work.
> >
> > as you can probably deduce, I'm no developer... googling found this link..
> >
> > http://bookmarklust.blogspot.com/2011/11/snort-2912-on-solaris-10x86.html
> >
> > followed the instructions (to add #include "sf_types.h" to a bunch of
> > files..)  and it seemed to work..   compiled  and created a binary.  :-)
> >
> > is there a way that this can be done with autoconf?   (configure) on
> > solaris?
> >
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> >
> > Luis

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