Strange installation results of Snort

serverpimp · 10-31-2005, 08:15 PM

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'

jw2328 · 11-01-2005, 05:14 AM

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

serverpimp · 11-01-2005, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jw2328
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.

fouldsy · 11-01-2005, 04:41 PM

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.