Hello all, one of the first tools I missed from a basic LFS system was netcat¹. It's part of most distributions I know and I use it quite regularly. So not being mentioned in BLFS, I thought it would be straight to build, but that proved wrong. Perhaps because of the age of the package (1996!), it just won't compile out of the box.
Another oddity is the fact that the tarball doesn't extract in it's own subdirectory. I created a patch² for building it, replacing the Makefile completely and adding #includes to one source file. The original author tried to build static binaries, but I can't see how this should be useful for LFS, so my own Makefile creates dynamically linked binaries. Do you think this would be a good addendum to the network tools section of BLFS? Regards, Felix ¹ <http://www.vulnwatch.org/netcat/> ² <http://palmen.homeip.net/~fmp/patches/nc-1.10-build_fixes-1.patch> -- Felix M. Palmen (Zirias) \ -PGP- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /"\ ASCII Ribbon web: http://zirias.ath.cx/ \ http://zirias.ath.cx/pub.txt \ / Campaign my open source projects: \ FP ED9B 62D0 BE39 32F9 2488 X Against HTML In http://zirias.ath.cx/?pg=pro \ 5D0C 8177 9D80 5ECF F683 / \ Mail And News
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