Problem compiling bro 0.4 on RedHat Linux 5.2

[Verstraete, Patrick]

Hi y'all,

Mike, I think the easiest thing to do is to download version 0.5 including a
(nice) port to Linux.

I've installed bro (version 0.5a) on linux and on solaris machines
Here follows some feedback about problems I've encountered.

1) the files doc/* are not installed in /usr/local/directory when using
"make install"

2) directory /usr/local/bro should first be created before using "make
install" (otherwise he copy all files to the file /usr/local/bro)

3)  on Solaris 2.5.1, yacc doesn't want to compile parse.y
A workaround was to install bison.

yacc -dtv parse.y
"parse.y", line 396: fatal: illegal rule: missing semicolon or | ?
*** Error code 1




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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Iglesias [SMTP:iglesias at draco.acs.uci.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 23, 1998 12:56 AM
> To:	bro at lbl.gov
> Subject:	Problem compiling bro 0.4 on RedHat Linux 5.2
> 
> I'm trying to compile bro 0.4 on RedHat Linux 5.2, which has the
> egcs compilers installed by default:
> 
> % c++ -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.90.29/specs
> gcc version egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)
> 
> When I try to compile bro, it stops on DNS.cc:
> 
> % make
> c++ -I. -I../libpcap-0.4a6 -g -Wall  -g -D__STDC__=2 -DVERSION="\"0.4\""
> -c main.cc
> c++ -I. -I../libpcap-0.4a6 -g -Wall  -g -D__STDC__=2 -c parse.cc
> c++ -I. -I../libpcap-0.4a6 -g -Wall  -g -D__STDC__=2 -c scan.cc
> c++ -I. -I../libpcap-0.4a6 -g -Wall  -g -D__STDC__=2 -c util.cc
> c++ -I. -I../libpcap-0.4a6 -g -Wall  -g -D__STDC__=2 -c BroString.cc
> c++ -I. -I../libpcap-0.4a6 -g -Wall  -g -D__STDC__=2 -c CompHash.cc
> c++ -I. -I../libpcap-0.4a6 -g -Wall  -g -D__STDC__=2 -c Conn.cc
> c++ -I. -I../libpcap-0.4a6 -g -Wall  -g -D__STDC__=2 -c Desc.cc
> c++ -I. -I../libpcap-0.4a6 -g -Wall  -g -D__STDC__=2 -c Dict.cc
> c++ -I. -I../libpcap-0.4a6 -g -Wall  -g -D__STDC__=2 -c DNS.cc
> DNS.cc: In method `void DNS_Mgr::AddResult(class DNS_Request *, struct
> nb_dns_result *)':
> DNS.cc:688: parse error before `('
> make: *** [DNS.o] Error 1
> 
> 
> Here are the source lines in the area of the error (via cat -n DNS.cc)
>    683          return r;
>    684          }
>    685
>    686  void DNS_Mgr::AddResult(DNS_Request* dr, struct nb_dns_result* r)
>    687          {
>    688          hostent* h = (r && r->h_errno == 0) ? r->hostent : 0;
>    689
>    690          DNS_Mapping* new_dm;
>    691          DNS_Mapping* prev_dm;
>    692          int keep_prev = 0;
>    693
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions?  I'm not very good with c++, so this is
> beyond
> my ability to fix.
> 
> 
> Mike Iglesias                        Internet:
> iglesias at draco.acs.uci.edu
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