argus-2.0.4.beta.2 testing

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Peter,
   We've stated since 2.0 that bison was a requirement
for argus installation.  It's a bug that the 2.0.2
configure didn't enforce that.  There was an issue with
filter collisions, since argus and libpcap have independent
filter compilers.  Since 2.0.3, we are forking a process
to create the filter, and so that requirement may
have gone away.   Still, INSTALL does say that
you have to have bison.

   Is this a big problem?

Carter

Carter Bullard
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu 
> [mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Peter Van Epp
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:19 AM
> To: carter at qosient.com
> Cc: argus
> Subject: Re: argus-2.0.4.beta.2 testing
> 
> 
> > 
> > Gentle people,
> >    We've got a few new issues out, LFS (largefile support)
> 
> 	On this one I had a chat with Martin about his post. 
> His suggestion 
> is look for a 2.4 kernel and if present assume LFS support, 
> if not (which isn't always true there is a Redhat mod for 2.2 
> apparantly) assume no support.
> 	As to testing, I just tried  argus-2.0.4.beta.3 
> (seconds after you put it up :-)) on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE and 
> get a complaint about bison:
> 
> argus-2.0.2.redux
> 
> ...
> checking for bison... no
> configure: warning: don't have both flex and bison; reverting 
> to lex/yacc checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
> 
> argus-2.0.4.beta.3
> 
> checking for flex... flex
> checking for flex 2.4 or higher... yes
> checking for bison... no
> configure: error: bison not found. see the INSTALL for more info
> 
> 	If bison really is a requirement I can do an install 
> from ports, but it would be nicer if the built in yacc could 
> be used so it isn't required. I'll try and get to OpenBSD and 
> NetBSD sometime later today.
> 
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
> 
>