[Bro-Dev] [Bro-Commits] [git/bro] topic/dnthayer/doc-changes-for-2.2: Update FreeBSD install instructions (72129ae)

Daniel Thayer dnthayer at illinois.edu
Wed Oct 16 09:59:28 PDT 2013


On 10/16/2013 11:33 AM, Robin Sommer wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 15:28 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>      Added perl to list of packages to install (it's not installed by default).
>
> What do we require Perl for?
>
> Robin
>

As a test, after doing "./configure" I removed /usr/bin/perl,
and here's how the build failed:

[ 66%] [BISON][Parser] Building parser with bison 2.5
[ 66%] [BISON][RuleParser] Building parser with bison 2.5
[ 66%] [sed] replacing stuff in /home/repo/bro/build/src/rup.cc
[ 66%] [sed] replacing stuff in /home/repo/bro/build/src/rup.h
[ 66%] [BISON][REParser] Building parser with bison 2.5
[ 66%] [sed] replacing stuff in /home/repo/bro/build/src/rep.cc
[ 66%] [sed] replacing stuff in /home/repo/bro/build/src/p.cc
[ 66%] [FLEX][RuleScanner] Building scanner with flex 2.5.35
[ 66%] [FLEX][REScanner] Building scanner with flex 2.5.35
[ 67%] [FLEX][Scanner] Building scanner with flex 2.5.35
[ 67%] [Perl] Processing debug commands
/bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/perl: not found
make[3]: *** [src/DebugCmdConstants.h] Error 127
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/repo/bro/build'
make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/bro.dir/all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/repo/bro/build'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/repo/bro/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2




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