Re: Building nmap 5.50 on RHEL-5 i386 failure

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

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.

David Fifield
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