Re: Libpcap 1.3.0 not building on OpenBSD 5.2 sparc64

[Kaya Saman <kayasaman () gmail com>]

On 12/10/2012 07:58 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Kaya Saman <kayasaman () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to build libpcap 1.3.0 on my Sun Fire V210 running OpenBSD 5.2 however, I keep getting errors??
> >
> > The configuration script doesn't come up with anything claiming to be an error
> That's because there isn't anything on the system that would inherently prevent it from building.
>
> > however, if I run 'make' afterwards I get this:
> >
> > # make
> > VER=`cat ./VERSION`;  MAJOR_VER=`sed 's/\([0-9][0-9]*\)\..*/\1/' ./VERSION`;  gcc -shared 
> > -Wl,-soname,libpcap.so.$MAJOR_VER   -o libpcap.so.$VER pcap-bpf.o fad-getad.o pcap.o inet.o gencode.o optimize.o nametoaddr.o 
> > etherent.o savefile.o sf-pcap.o sf-pcap-ng.o pcap-common.o bpf_image.o bpf_dump.o  scanner.o grammar.o bpf_filter.o version.o
> > scanner.o(.text+0x3b8): In function `pcap__load_buffer_state':
> > /home/libpcap-1.3.0/scanner.c:4207: relocation truncated to fit: R_SPARC_GOT13 yy_n_chars
> That's probably because it needs to be compiled with -fPIC rather than -fpic - offsets in SPARC instructions are, I 
> think, shorter than in at least some other instruction sets, so if the global offset table is too large (which it apparently 
> is, perhaps due to the Flex-generated scanner, given that the complaints from the linker are about it), the compiler might 
> need to generate instructions that synthesize larger offsets than will fit in the 13-bit offset field.
>
> > Would anyone be able to give me a hand to build it into my system?
> Edit the Makefile and replace all occurrences of "-fpic" with "-fPIC", do "make clean", and then try doing "make" again.  
> I'll fix the configure script by adding OpenBSD to the list of platforms where 64-bit SPARC requires -fPIC.

Many thanks Guy,

this worked fine :-)

I just hope it's installed properly; though the installation of Snort 
and Daq went perfectly so will just need to test more.


Regards,


Kaya
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