Things Learned from compiling tripwire 2.3.1

The problem existed when compeiling tripwire with gcc3, often there is a chance that it would not compile, The solution is that there is a patch associated with the program. GCC3 is the main factor the failure of the compiling against the source. To get around that, patches have been made to directly patch the system itself.
To check to see which version of GCC you have just type gcc -v

Personally speaking, The following commands has worked for me

patch -Np1 -i ../tripwire-2.3.1-2-gcc3-build-fixes.patch
rm -rf src/STLport*
touch src/STLport_r src/STLport_d
make release
Navigate into the /install folder, cp or mv the install.* (install.cfg and install.sh) into the main tripwire directory
./install.sh and your good to go

Credits
http://www.iu.hio.no/teaching/materi...e/patches.html
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs.../tripwire.html

pardon my sp, Have agood day.

Thanks for sharing. I'm sure (future) tripwire users will find this interesting.
While I'm on the mike let me also promote the other Usual Suspects: Aide and Samhain. No major probs compiling there. Both Aide and Samhain are mature, are being developed and maintained actively and have a support community.

Thanks Spawn for the repely, just that when i was having problems not alot of pages had documented this issue >.<. I posted here hoping some one will do a search and find the answer. And yes i am actually trying to install AIDE currently on my laptop. Currently having problems with the dreaded mhash issue.

Thx for the feed back and have a nice day ^_^

Problems installed AIDE
Status Aide Installed:

Tried installing AIDE version 0.10, did a ./configure and an error will come up as
“checking for mhash_get_block_size in -lmash ... no”
“configure ' error' you must have libmhash properly installed”

Did a lot of Googleing and mail list reading, so i subscrible to the mailing list and a great person named Mike Helped me with the problem.

Here is a direct quote

“By default, the aide build system will produce a statically-linked
binary. It's possible that Slackware has installed only the shared
mhash
libraries; check if you have a libmhash.a file. /usr/lib/

If not, you'll need to build libmhash with ./configure –enable-static.”
Credit Mike on aide-deve list
I just added the /usr/lib and ./configure part ><

Good luck to all the future aiders ^_^

Gensis

Hmm. I planned on telling you just that in the other thread, but you solved it yourself. Good. BTW, You could have added it to the other thread, would've kept things together. If you've got no problem with it I'll just merge them.

cool with me ^^ thx spawn