[Bro-Dev] New proposal (Re: CBAN naming)
Daniel Thayer
dnthayer at illinois.edu
Mon Jun 6 12:14:50 PDT 2016
On 06/06/2016 01:50 PM, Robin Sommer wrote:
> - For shipping binary plugins:
>
> - Through meta information, we let the author specify a build
> command to build all their binary stuff, such as "./configure &&
> make && make test". The command line client runs that command
> inside <repo>.
>
> - Per default, we expect that build command to create a directory
> <repo>/build that contains a binary plugin. We add
> <install-base>/<name>/build to BRO_PLUGIN_PATH.
>
> - If one wants to locate the plugin elsewhere, optional meta
> information can set a different BRO_PLUGIN_PATH. For example,
> to put it into "<repo>/compiled/cool_plugin", one would specify
> as meta information "pluginpath=compiled/cool_plugin".
>
Could you clarify what you mean by BRO_PLUGIN_PATH here? Are you saying
that after I do a "cban install cool-plugin", I'd need to manually
set an environment variable in order for Bro to find the new plugin?
Or are we still planning to default to <PREFIX>/lib/bro/plugins/ ?
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