RHEL/RH90 potential problem (pcap_freecode)

[José María González]

Hi, 

I'm compiling Bro on a RHEL host (2.4.21-9.0.3.EL). From 
google, it seems the problem happens also in RH 9.0. I'm 
documenting it in the mailing list in case somebody else 
falls in it. I could also add it to the bug list, though I don't 
know how. 

-Chema



1. Symptoms: 

> uname -a 
Linux NA 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL #1 Tue Apr 20 19:54:32 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

> ./configure
[...]
checking for local pcap library... ../libpcap-0.7.2/libpcap.a
checking for pcap_freecode in -lpcap... no
checking for pcap headers... checking for bpf_set_bufsize... no
[...]

> ./make
[...]
g++ -I. -Ilibedit  -O -I../libpcap-0.7.2  -I/usr/kerberos/include -Ilinux-include -c main.cc
In file included from Net.h:27,
                 from main.cc:47:
PktSrc.h:200: declaration of C function `int pcap_freecode(pcap_t*, 
   bpf_program*)' conflicts with
../libpcap-0.7.2/pcap.h:182: previous declaration `void 
   pcap_freecode(bpf_program*)' here


2. Explanation:

nm'ing ../libpcap-0.7.2/libpcap.a reveals it indeed has 
pcap_freecode, so the problem is in the configure script. 

After recreating the conftest.c script, I get:

> gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -L../libpcap-0.7.2 -lpcap  -lssl -lcrypto
../libpcap-0.7.2/libpcap.a(nametoaddr.o)(.text+0x351): In function `pcap_ether_aton':
/n/buffet/home6/aciri/chema/projects/prps/src/libpcap-0.7.2/./nametoaddr.c:314: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
../libpcap-0.7.2/libpcap.a(nametoaddr.o)(.text+0x411): In function `xdtoi':
/n/buffet/home6/aciri/chema/projects/prps/src/libpcap-0.7.2/./nametoaddr.c:250: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
../libpcap-0.7.2/libpcap.a(nametoaddr.o)(.text+0x436):/n/buffet/home6/aciri/chema/projects/prps/src/libpcap-0.7.2/./nametoaddr.c:252: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
../libpcap-0.7.2/libpcap.a(scanner.o)(.text+0x165d): In function `xdtoi':
/n/buffet/home6/aciri/chema/projects/prps/src/libpcap-0.7.2/scanner.l:348: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
../libpcap-0.7.2/libpcap.a(scanner.o)(.text+0x1682):/n/buffet/home6/aciri/chema/projects/prps/src/libpcap-0.7.2/scanner.l:350: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

So, conftest failing on an undefined reference to __ctype_b is 
interpreted as libpcap not having pcap_freecode. 

As for the __ctype_b problem, check what RH has to say: 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91290#c6

3. Solution: 

Recompile your libpcap.a

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