Re: Building nmap 5.50 on RHEL-5 i386 failure

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 06:05:32PM +0100, Bjorn S. Nilsson wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, David Fifield wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:21:16 -0800
> > From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
> > To: Bjorn S. Nilsson <nilsson () nbi dk>
> > Cc: nmap-dev () insecure org
> > Subject: Re: Building nmap 5.50 on RHEL-5 i386 failure
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 01:17:31PM +0100, Bjorn S. Nilsson wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Thanks for 5.50, but I can't build it. I have a RedHat 5.6 i386
> > > workstation. Some output:
> > >
> > > rpmbuild --define "buildnping 0" -bb nmap-5.50-1.spec
> > > ...
> > > ranlib liblua.a
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/nmap-5.50/liblua'
> > > Compiling libpcap
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/nmap-5.50/libpcap'
> > > gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
> > > -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386
> > > -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -O2 -fpic -O2 -g -pipe
> > > -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
> > > --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic
> > > -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -I.  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> > > -D_U_="__attribute__((unused))" -c ./pcap-linux.c
> > > ./pcap-linux.c:154:31: error: netlink/genl/genl.h: No such file or directory
> > > ./pcap-linux.c:155:33: error: netlink/genl/family.h: No such file or
> > > directory
> > > ./pcap-linux.c:156:31: error: netlink/genl/ctrl.h: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > make[1]: *** [pcap-linux.o] Error 1
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/nmap-5.50/libpcap'
> > > make: *** [pcap_build] Error 2
> > > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.4834 (%build)
> > >
> > >
> > > RPM build errors:
> > >    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.4834 (%build)
> > >
> > > Can you see what I am missing? I'll happily send more information if
> > > needed.
> >
> > What is your kernel version? Perhaps the libpcap we bundle is
> > incompatible. Try installing the development package for libpcap and
> > then configuring with --with-libpcap=/usr, replacing /usr with wherever
> > your package manager installs libpcap.
>
> Thanks David,
>
> --with-libpcap=/usr added to the %configure line solved the problem.
>
> This system is a standard RedHat 5.6 workstation, kernel 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5
> and libpcap-0.9.4-15.el5.i386

One more thing, what's the version of libpcap? ("yum info libpcap").

David Fifield
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