All, With very much help and thanks to ALL of you that have helped me, I have gotten IPFilter to compile on Solaris 8. Although I was having so many problems and was chasing my tail, this is really quite easy (I think). I still have to verify that it works properly, but here is what I have done:
Ultra 10 workstation with 512 MB memory. Loaded Solaris 8 Full Distribution plus OEM support. I did NOT install any security or recommended patches to bring it up-to-date. Downloaded from SunFreeware libiconv 1.8 and gcc 3.4.2 for Solaris 8 http://www.sunfreeware.com/indexsparc8.html Downloaded IPFilter 3.4.35 source code http://cheops.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ipfilter-status.html cp -p libiconv-1.8-so.8-sparc-local.gz /var/spool/pkg cp -p gcc-3.4.2-sol8-sparc-local.gz /var/spool/pkg cd /var/spool/pkg gzip -d libiconv-1.8-so.8-sparc-local.gz gzip -d gcc-3.4.2-sol8-sparc-local.gz pkgadd -d libiconv-1.8-so.8-sparc-local reboot login cd /var/spool/pkg pkgadd -d gcc-3.4.2-sol8-sparc-local reboot login cp -p ip_fil3.4.35.tar.gz /root cd /root gzip -d ip_fil3.4.35.tar.gz tar xvf gzip -d ip_fil3.4.35.tar cd ip_fil3.4.35 make solaris cd SunOS5 make package cd spar-5.8 cp -p ipf.pkg /var/spool/pkg cd /var/spool/pkg pkgadd -d ipf.pkg reboot Lessons that I learned... 1) The link of gcc to /usr/local/bin is EXTREMELY important. Regardless if gcc is in your path, the buildsunos script strips away your PATH variable and implements its' own looking for gcc in /usr/ccs/bin. If it is not there, it won't work. 2) I've seen instructions stating to use gcc from the Solaris 8 or 9 companion CD. This is probably fine if you want to do 32-bit binaries, not 64-bit binaries as the gcc version is 2.9.5. The gcc on the Solaris 10 companion CD is version 3.4.2, but is compiled using the GNU 'as' versus the solaris 'as'. This is an apparent issue although I have not confirmed. 3) Some of my biggest help came from people saying that I needed to use pfil 2.7. I am not sure if I may have compiled my ipfilter correctly or not, however, I did not have to use pfil in order for it to "appear" to compile successfully. Maybe that is something you have to use with the 4.x series of ipfilter? I am not a complete rock, but this was my first time ever compiling software. If anyone sees that I may have not completed all of the steps I needed to have a properly working version of IPFilter, please respond to this email. For any other "rocks" out there that may be compiling software for the first time, hope this helps. Paul Fiengo
