Felix M. Palmen wrote: > 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>
This would be a good candidate for the wiki right now. Why don't you add it? I created an empty page at http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/othernetworkingutilities that would be a good place. -- bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
