Re: Error Building Snort 2.9.1.2 on FreeBSD, Fix preinstall flex

[Ryan Steinmetz <rpsfa () rit edu>]

On (12/14/11 15:52), Robert Z wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I had an error building Snort 2.9.1.2 on a fresh system (Freebsd 8.1 x86).
>
> Seems Makefile fails to preinstall flex. I have attached the screen output and my?options?file (/var/db/ports/snort).
>
> Thanks for your hard work.
> Robert

> ===>  Building package for snort-2.9.1.2
> rmdir: /usr/ports/net/daq/work: Directory not empty
> *** Error code 1 (ignored)
> rmdir: /usr/ports/net/libnet/work: Directory not empty
> *** Error code 1 (ignored)
> rmdir: /usr/ports/devel/libtool/work: Directory not empty
> *** Error code 1 (ignored)
> rmdir: /usr/ports/devel/pcre/work: Directory not empty
> *** Error code 1 (ignored)
> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> pkg_create: can't find package 'flex-2.5.35_4' installed!
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/flex.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/flex.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/security/snort.
> FreeBSD81x86# make clean
> ===>  Cleaning for daq-0.6.2
> ===>  Cleaning for libnet11-1.1.2.1_3,1
> ===>  Cleaning for libtool-2.4_1
> ===>  Cleaning for pcre-8.20
> ===>  Cleaning for flex-2.5.35_4
> ===>  Cleaning for gmake-3.82
> ===>  Cleaning for bison-2.4.3,1
> ===>  Cleaning for libdnet-1.11_3
> ===>  Cleaning for libpcap-1.1.1_1
> ===>  Cleaning for m4-1.4.16,1
> ===>  Cleaning for libiconv-1.13.1_1
> ===>  Cleaning for gettext-0.18.1.1
> ===>  Cleaning for snort-2.9.1.2
> FreeBSD81x86# pkg_info
> bison-2.4.3,1       A parser generator from FSF, (mostly) compatible with Yacc
> ca_root_nss-3.12.11_1 The root certificate bundle from the Mozilla Project
> curl-7.21.3_2       Non-interactive tool to get files from FTP, GOPHER, HTTP(S)
> cvsps-2.1           Create patchset information from CVS
> daq-0.6.2           Data Acquisition abstraction library for snort 2.9+
> expat-2.0.1_2       XML 1.0 parser written in C
> fastest_cvsup-0.3.0 Finds fastest CVSup server
> gettext-0.18.1.1    GNU gettext package
> git-1.7.8           Distributed source code management tool
> gmake-3.82          GNU version of 'make' utility
> libdnet-1.11_3      A simple interface to low level networking routines
> libiconv-1.13.1_1   A character set conversion library
> libnet11-1.1.2.1_3,1 A C library for creating IP packets
> libpcap-1.1.1_1     Ubiquitous network traffic capture library
> libtool-2.4_1       Generic shared library support script
> m4-1.4.16,1         GNU m4
> p5-Error-0.17016    Perl module to provide Error/exception support for perl: Er
> p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.53 Perl5 interface to SSL sockets
> p5-Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01_1 An SMTP client supporting SSL
> p5-Net-SSLeay-1.42  Perl5 interface to SSL
> pcre-8.20           Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
> perl-5.12.4_3       Practical Extraction and Report Language
> python27-2.7.2_3    An interpreted object-oriented programming language
> snort-2.9.1.2       Lightweight network intrusion detection system

> # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'.
> # No user-servicable parts inside!
> # Options for snort-2.9.1.2
> _OPTIONS_READ=snort-2.9.1.2
> WITH_IPV6=true
> WITH_MPLS=true
> WITH_GRE=true
> WITHOUT_TARGETBASED=true
> WITH_DECODERPRE=true
> WITH_ZLIB=true
> WITH_NORMALIZER=true
> WITH_REACT=true
> WITH_PERFPROFILE=true
> WITH_FLEXRESP3=true
> WITHOUT_MYSQL=true
> WITHOUT_ODBC=true
> WITHOUT_POSTGRESQL=true
> WITHOUT_PRELUDE=true
> WITHOUT_LRGPCAP=true
> WITH_SNORTSAM=true
> WITH_SOURCEFIRE=true
> WITHOUT_DBGSNORT=true

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Does it successfully build after executing 'make clean'?  Additionally,
the port has been updated to 2.9.2, so you should probably update to
that to obtain the latest and greatest features/fixes.

-r

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