[Bro] Bro 2.3.2 and pf_ring 6.0.2

Michał Purzyński michalpurzynski1 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 07:14:22 PST 2015


When trying to build Bro 2.3.2 with libpcap from pf_ring 6.0.2
(./configure --with-pcap=/usr/local/lib, where libpcap-1.1.1-ring is
installed) I get errors:

-- Looking for include files HAVE_PCAP_INT_H
-- Looking for include files HAVE_PCAP_INT_H - not found.
-- Looking for pcap_freecode
-- Looking for pcap_freecode - not found
-- No implementation for pcap_freecode()
-- Performing Test LIBPCAP_PCAP_COMPILE_NOPCAP_HAS_ERROR_PARAMETER
-- Performing Test LIBPCAP_PCAP_COMPILE_NOPCAP_HAS_ERROR_PARAMETER - Failed
-- Performing Test LIBPCAP_PCAP_COMPILE_NOPCAP_NO_ERROR_PARAMETER
-- Performing Test LIBPCAP_PCAP_COMPILE_NOPCAP_NO_ERROR_PARAMETER - Failed
CMake Error at cmake/PCAPTests.cmake:58 (message):
  Can't determine if pcap_compile_nopcap takes an error parameter
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:176 (include)
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!


There is no other libpcap on this system. I have just tried on a clean
and freshly installed VM.

What am I doing wrong? I'd like to link Bro with pcap pf_ring, not the
system one.


grep PCAP build/CMakeCache.txt


PCAP_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=/usr/local/include
PCAP_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/local/lib/libpcap.so
PCAP_ROOT_DIR:PATH=/usr/local/lib
//Details about finding PCAP
FIND_PACKAGE_MESSAGE_DETAILS_PCAP:INTERNAL=[/usr/local/lib/libpcap.so][/usr/local/include][v()]
HAVE_LIBPCAP_PCAP_FREECODE:INTERNAL=
//Have includes HAVE_PCAP_INT_H
HAVE_PCAP_INT_H:INTERNAL=
//Test LIBPCAP_PCAP_COMPILE_NOPCAP_HAS_ERROR_PARAMETER
LIBPCAP_PCAP_COMPILE_NOPCAP_HAS_ERROR_PARAMETER:INTERNAL=
//Test LIBPCAP_PCAP_COMPILE_NOPCAP_NO_ERROR_PARAMETER
LIBPCAP_PCAP_COMPILE_NOPCAP_NO_ERROR_PARAMETER:INTERNAL=
//ADVANCED property for variable: PCAP_INCLUDE_DIR
PCAP_INCLUDE_DIR-ADVANCED:INTERNAL=1
//ADVANCED property for variable: PCAP_LIBRARY
PCAP_LIBRARY-ADVANCED:INTERNAL=1
//Test PCAP_LINKS_SOLO
PCAP_LINKS_SOLO:INTERNAL=1
//ADVANCED property for variable: PCAP_ROOT_DIR
PCAP_ROOT_DIR-ADVANCED:INTERNAL=1


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