Re: Errors on Mac 10.5 with NSE

[MadHat Unspecific <madhat () unspecific com>]

Fyodor wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 10:35:27PM -0600, MadHat Unspecific wrote:
>   
> > ok,
> > $ make clean
> > edit Makefile.in
> > $ configure && make && make install
> >
> > No crash...  Looks like that was it.
> >     
>
> Thanks for testing.  I also just noticed that the Debian Nmap package
> removes the binary stripping as well
> (http://packages.debian.org/sid/nmap).  So I have removed it from the
> Nmap makefile for the moment.
>
> I must admit to being quite torn by this, since stripping really does
> reduce the binary size dramatically (from 4MB to 800KB on my x86_64
> Linux system).  I'm thinking maybe we should add a test to configure
> to decide whether (and how) to strip.  We would call "strip" if that
> binary exists (and do no stripping if it doesn't), except on Mac where
> we might be able to use "strip -x" successfully (
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-01/msg00357.html ).
>
> Madhat: Can you try 'strip -x nmap' and see if it still runs or if it
> crashes with the Lua error?
>   

OK, seemed to work fine, but not much size difference in size.
1.0M before
840K after

> Thanks for posting the traceroute problem.  I hope someone finds a
> solution to that.  I don't have a Mac to test with.
>   

I'd give you access, but it is a laptop.  What can I do to help figure 
out what the issue is?



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