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Nmap Development: Re: Errors on Mac 10.5 with NSE

Re: Errors on Mac 10.5 with NSE

From: MadHat Unspecific <madhat_at_unspecific.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:39:00 -0600

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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