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Lack of dependency generation in nsock makefile
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:28:38 -0600
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 08:38:53PM -0800, Fyodor wrote:
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:52:15PM -0600, Nelson wrote:nevermind... make clean and distclean fixed the issueThis makes me wonder if the Nmap (or dependencies such as nbase, nsock, etc.) Makefile dependency tracking is working properly. Has anyone else been noticing this problem (where you have to do make clean after an svn update in your sandbox because a plain 'make' fails to compile some of the new code files)?
This just happened to me again today while working in nsock. It wasn't after an update, it was after modifying some files. Scanning 3 services on localhost (127.0.0.1) nmap: nsock_connect.c:158: nsock_connect_tcp: Assertion `nsi->state == NSIOD_STATE_INITIAL || nsi->state == NSIOD_STATE_UNKNOWN' failed. Aborted I finally looked at the nsock makefile. It doesn't do automatic dependency generation with a makefile.dep file like nmap and ncat do. The only dependencies it knows are of .o files on their .c counterparts, so if something changes in a header included by a .c file, the .c won't get rebuilt. You can try it yourself with touch nsock/src/nsock_internal.h make Nothing will get recompiled, even though there are a lot of files that include nsock_internal.h. I will see about fixing this, or have a bug wrangler do it, if nobody offers a patch first. David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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