Re: Libnet make fatal error

[Dirk Geschke <Dirk_Geschke () genua de>]

Hi Shekar,

> I'm trying to run make on libnet 1.1 and I'm getting the following fatal
> error. 
>  
> Does anybody have answer for this?
>  
> BTW: I read a mail with similar problem. Somebody has suggested to go with
> libnet 1.0.2 instead. I tried both, no luck. 
>  
> Please let me know if anybody has suggestions...
>
> Note: This is on Solaris sparc 2.9 host

for snort you will need 1.0.2, the API of libnet changed with version 1.1
and is not backward compatible.

There is a problem with solaris and the function gethostbyaddr() and
gethosbyname2(). They are not part of the system libraries...

I append a simple patch to fix this problem.

Best regards

Dirk

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