argus-2.0.4.beta.2 testing
Peter Van Epp
vanepp at sfu.ca
Fri Nov 9 11:42:39 EST 2001
>
> 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?
No, its more a minor annoyance :-) All that means is that you need the
ports collection installed (which I always do anyway) and cd there and do a
make in the bison directory. It will then happily build and install bison.
I'm just lazy :-)
Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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