Strange installation results of Snort
 

I downloaded the latest version of Snort to load on my Xandros/Debian box. I ran configure, make, make install and some of snort is there. The snort binary is in /usr/local/bin and it even works. But some of the other stuff is not for exmaple /etc/snort.

The end of the make appears to show signs there are issues in the subdirs. Appreciate the help solving this one folks.

make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/src'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/src'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/doc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. :( <<<< what happened?
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/doc'
Making all in etc
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/etc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/etc'
Making all in templates
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/templates'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/templates'
Making all in contrib
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/contrib'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/contrib'
Making all in schemas
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/schemas'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/schemas'
Making all in rpm
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/rpm'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/rpm'
Making all in m4
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/m4'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3/m4'
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/snort-2.4.3'

That just means that there is nothing to compile in those directories

But I am pretty sure there should be something to compile. There is a Makefile in each of those directories.

I found whilst compiling snort from souce under debian, it didn't create the basic config files. I had to copy these from the souce directory after it had compiled + installed. Also, just because there is a make file there doesn't mean it has to do anything - it can depend on the architecture being installed upon, and additional parameters passed such as enabling mysql or postgresql logging features, etc.