A few Issues Building Snort++ (3.0.0-a4-b244) on Ubuntu

[Noah Dietrich <noah_dietrich () 86penny org>]

Hello,

I have found a few issues building Snort3 a4 b244 on Ubuntu.  Details below:
1. Snort not able to detect SafeC libraries properly.
2. Trying to compile snort extras with configure_cmake.sh generates error
3. Additional question -> will DAQ go to cmake in the future?
4. Install location of snort binary seems off


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1. snort not able to detect SafeC libraries properly.

I am following the same build steps as with previous releases of Snort, but
now it doesn't detect the SafeC libraries. I have verified this issue on
Ubuntu 12 x86 and Ubuntu 14 x64:

./configure_cmake.sh --prefix=/
(...)
Feature options:
    Flatbuffers:    ON
    Hyperscan:      ON
    ICONV:          ON
    LZMA:           ON
    *SafeC:          OFF*
    UUID:           ON


I tried manually setting the path for the SafeC includes using cmake
directly but get the same results:

/usr/local/bin/cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/
-DSAFEC_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/libsafec ../snort3


SafeC libraries are installed to  /usr/local/include/libsafec:
noah@snort16x64:~/snort_src/snort3$ ls -l /usr/local/include/libsafec
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2790 Mar 17 06:20 safe_lib_errno.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2320 Mar 17 06:20 safe_lib.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3753 Mar 17 06:20 safe_mem_lib.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6417 Mar 17 06:20 safe_str_lib.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1917 Mar 17 06:20 safe_types.h
The snort3 configure_cmake.sh doesn't seem to allow for any configuration
of SafeC beyond disabling it.


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2. Trying to compile snort extras with configure_cmake.sh generates error

I am tyring to configure snort extras using configure_cmake.sh, but as soon
as I navigate to the build directory and run 'make' I get an error.  Tested
on Ubuntu 16 x64:

noah@snort16x64:~/snort_src/snort3$ ./configure_cmake.sh --prefix=/

(...)
-- Build files have been written to: /home/noah/snort_src/snort3/extra/build
noah@snort16x64:~/snort_src/snort3/extra$ cd build
noah@snort16x64:~/snort_src/snort3/extra/build$ make
Scanning dependencies of target cd_eapol
[  1%] Building CXX object
src/codecs/cd_eapol/CMakeFiles/cd_eapol.dir/cd_eapol.cc.o
/home/noah/snort_src/snort3/extra/src/codecs/cd_eapol/cd_eapol.cc:20:33:
fatal error: codecs/codec_module.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
src/codecs/cd_eapol/CMakeFiles/cd_eapol.dir/build.make:62: recipe for
target 'src/codecs/cd_eapol/CMakeFiles/cd_eapol.dir/cd_eapol.cc.o' failed
make[2]: *** [src/codecs/cd_eapol/CMakeFiles/cd_eapol.dir/cd_eapol.cc.o]
Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:169: recipe for target
'src/codecs/cd_eapol/CMakeFiles/cd_eapol.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [src/codecs/cd_eapol/CMakeFiles/cd_eapol.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:149: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2


When installing in previous versions, I had to specify the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
before the compilation worked, but i'm not sure if that's required or
handled by your script automagically:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/lib/pkgconfig/


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3. Additional question -> will DAQ go to cmake in the future?

Will DAQ move to cmake in the future?

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4. Install location of snort binary seems off

When I run configure_cmake.sh and specify the prefix path as the root of
the drive (--prefix=/), most of the files are installed where you'd expect
(/etc/snort, et cetera), however the snort binary is placed in
/usr/bin/snort, this is different than previous installations, where
setting the prefix to the root of the drive would install the snort binary
to the /bin directory. is this a bug or by design?


thank you,
Noah

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