[Bro] Bro IDS on CentOS 6.x

[Azoff, Justin S]

> On Jul 26, 2017, at 11:26 AM, craig bowser <reswob10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm trying to install Bro on CentOS 6.9.  
> 
> When I'm trying to configure I get an error complaining that gcc needs to be version 4.8 or above.
> 
> CentOS 6.9 comes with 4.7.7 and the main repo does not have 4.8.
> 
> And you are not supposed to upgrade the 6.x working environment to 4.8.
> 
> So I followed this forum post (of many similar) to create an environment where 4.8 is installed:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/stephenturner/e3bc5cfacc2dc67eca8b
> 
> # sudo yum install centos-release-scl
> # sudo yum install devtoolset-3-toolchain
> # scl enable devtoolset-3 bash
> 
> # gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.9.2 20150212 (Red Hat 4.9.2-6)
> Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> But when I run ./configure, it quits with this error:
> 
> CMake Error at cmake/RequireCXX11.cmake:40 (message):
>   GCC version must be at least 4.8 for C++11 support, detected: 4.4.7
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>   CMakeLists.txt:168 (include)
> 
> 
> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> See also "/opt/bro-2.5.1/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
> See also "/opt/bro-2.5.1/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
> 
> which seems like it running in the original environment not in the scl devtoolset-3 environment.

rm -rf build and then ./configure again.  That should fix it.

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- Justin Azoff