Nmap Development: Re: Error building nmap on amd64

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:36:08PM +0200, Sven Klemm wrote:
> |> | This change change would remove support for shared NSE modules and
> |> | change bit into a statically linked module like bin, hash, and pcre.
> |> | This is a moderately substantial change so please speak up if you
> have a
> |> | reason why shared modules should be retained.
> |>
> |> But this will stop common lua modules from working with NSE and it
> |> will increase the effort needed to write lua bindings for NSE.
> |
> | You're right, stopping other common Lua modules from working is
> | undesirable. NSE would still have the ability to load shared Lua
> | modules, but it wouldn't provide any itself. In any case the shared
> | modules wouldn't work with a static build of Nmap.
>
> As long as nmap could still load dynamic modules this is fine with me.
> I am not using static nmap builds so I don't mind, but as the RPMs use
> ~ a static build people using RPMs might think differently.
Patrick Donnelly converted bit into a static module. There are no
dynamic modules that are part of NSE any more. The nselib-bin directory
is still there and any modules you put in it wil still get built, but
not installed (part of the main makefile is commented out).

Normally I would say get rid of the nselib-bin directory but Sven said
it makes his work significantly easier. It's a shame dynamic modules
have to go just because they don't work with static builds, because they
work fine otherwise.

David Fifield

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