Re: Nping build breakage on opensolaris

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:43:37PM -0500, jrf wrote:
> All,
>
> Given recent news, I don't know how relevant this will be, but I tried
> doing a self hosted build of nmap on the following platform:
>
>  SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
[...]
> g++ -c -I../libdnet-stripped/include  -I../nbase -I../nsock/include -g
> -O2 -Wall  -fno-strict-aliasing   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -DNPING_NAME=\"Nping\" -DNPING_URL=\"http://nmap.org/nping\";
> -DNPING_PLATFORM=\"i386-pc-solaris2.11\"
> -DNPINGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/nping\" -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> ArgParser.cc -o ArgParser.o
> In file included from common_modified.h:101,
>                  from NpingTargets.h:100,
>                  from NpingOps.h:150,
>                  from ArgParser.cc:101:
> common.h:133: error: `u_int8_t' does not name a type
> common.h:134: error: `u_int8_t' does not name a type

For what it is worth, I get the same errors on my Solaris 9 SPARC box:

SunOS hostname 5.9 Generic_117171-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

As David noted, Nmap's tcpip.h has similar code without this issue.  I
think Nping really needs to share code better with Nmap rather than
cutting and pasting so much.  In many cases, I think the code needs to
be taken out of Nmap and Nping then placed in Nbase (or perhaps other
places) so it can be shared.

I fixed a bunch of Nmap Solaris issues tonight, and this is the last
issue preventing "./configure;make" from working.  But I don't have
any more time tonight, so I had to ./configure --without-nping for
now.  Anyone else who wants to give it a shot is welcome to.

Cheers,
-F
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