compile on RedHat Linux?

Ruoming Pang rpang at icir.org
Fri Feb 7 10:03:22 PST 2003


Here is the answer I got when I posted the same question on the mailing
list: (I do not have the answer for my last question about the
internal_error -- anybody knows a solution?)

Ruoming

Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:18:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Ruoming Pang <rpang at mule.icir.org>
To: grd-pub.56 at NOSPAMnetcourrier.com
Subject: Re: building bro in linux

Thanks! It does solve the link problem. But as I try to run bro, DNS_Mgr
complained about an internal_error from nb_dns. I guess I need to get a
newer version of libresolv?

Ruoming

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 grd-pub.56 at NOSPAMnetcourrier.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> You should try linking with "/usr/lib/libresolv.a" instead of
"-lresolv" -- 
> the latter uses the dynamic library, libresolv.so, unless you add the 
> "-static" option. Just edit the Makefile accordingly.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Olivier.
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 04 December 2002 07:02 am, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wonder anyone has experience in building Bro in linux and,
especially,
> > in resolving the following problem:
> >
> > nb_dns.o: In function `nb_dns_activity':
> > nb_dns.o(.text+0x678): undefined reference to `__ns_initparse'
> > nb_dns.o(.text+0x742): undefined reference to `_ns_flagdata'
> > nb_dns.o(.text+0x748): undefined reference to `_ns_flagdata'
> > nb_dns.o(.text+0x9bc): undefined reference to `__ns_parserr'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [bro] Error 1
> >
> > I am using linux 2.4.18-3 (Redhat 7.3). I nm'ed libresolv.a and did
find
> > __ns_initparse in it:
> >
> > /usr/lib/libresolv.a:ns_parse.o:00000000 T __ns_initparse
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Ruoming
> 


On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Anton Chuvakin, Ph.D. wrote:

> All,
> 
> Anybody knows why is that?
> 
> g++ -o bro main.o net_util.o util.o parse.o scan.o re-parse.o re-scan.o
> rule-parse.o rule-scan.o Active.o Anon.o Attr.o BackDoor.o BroString.o
> CCL.o CompHash.o Conn.o DFA.o Debug.o DebugCmds.o DbgBreakpoint.o
> DbgWatch.o DbgHelp.o Desc.o Dict.o Discard.o DNS.o DNS_Mgr.o EquivClass.o
> Event.o Expr.o File.o Finger.o Frag.o Frame.o FTP.o Func.o Hash.o HTTP.o
> ICMP.o ID.o Ident.o InterConn.o IntSet.o List.o Logger.o Login.o MIME.o
> NFA.o NTP.o NVT.o Net.o NetbiosSSN.o NetVar.o Obj.o PktSrc.o PolicyFile.o
> Portmap.o PriorityQueue.o Queue.o Reassem.o Rlogin.o RE.o RPC.o Rule.o
> RuleMatcher.o RuleAction.o RuleCondition.o Scope.o Sessions.o SMTP.o SSH.o
> SteppingStone.o Stmt.o TCP.o TCP_Rewriter.o Telnet.o Timer.o Type.o UDP.o
> Val.o Var.o XDR.o cq.o md5.o setsignal.o version.o  nb_dns.o  -Llibedit
> -ltermcap -ledit -lresolv  -lpcap -lm
> 
> nb_dns.o: In function `nb_dns_activity':
> nb_dns.o(.text+0x678): undefined reference to `__ns_initparse'
> nb_dns.o(.text+0x742): undefined reference to `_ns_flagdata'
> nb_dns.o(.text+0x748): undefined reference to `_ns_flagdata'
> nb_dns.o(.text+0x9bc): undefined reference to `__ns_parserr'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> make: *** [bro] Error 1
> 
> System:
> 
> # Linux bastion 2.4.18-3 #1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT 2002 i686 unknown
> # Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
> 
> -- 
> Anton Chuvakin, Ph.D., GCIA
> Senior Security Analyst
> netForensics -  http://www.netForensics.com
> 732-393-6071
> 




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