I had the .deps problem solved on Debian 3.0r1 by upgrading automake, autoconf and libtool to the latest stable releases. Ntop compiled successfully and was running happily ever after.
So, I built a FreeBSD 4.7 box this weekend, installed ntop from ports first and had it running, but for some reason the web interface won't come up although ntop was running without any complaints. Instead of wasting time with older version, I downloaded the latest source and tried to compile it with default FreeBSD installation settings, it bombed on .deps. Upgraded the automake, autoconf and libtool to latest and it compiles okay but there seem to be a lot more compile warnings popping up as compared to my Debian compile. Most of the warnings were related to gd, these I haven't seen during the Debian compile. There were some library linking warnings as well, if I remember correctly they were about libgd* etc. The end result was the ntop compiled, installed and ran okay but I'm having problem with web interface right now as the main frame page is not loading. The top and left frame loads but the main is empty. Clicking on top frame links load pages in left frame but clicking on left frame links open a new browser window which is empty, somehow the help and credits page load. Apparently not a browser problem as I tried IE6, Mozilla 1.0 and Netscape 6 etc and all had the same result. BTW, upgrade to latest libtool 1.4.3 from fsf.org (ports have some old version) breaks other software compile. I had problem compiling php4 from ports, getting error that libtool was out of date, even when the latest version was installed, I reverted to version from ports and php4 compiled successfully. Above is only an account of quick and dirty installation attempt at ntop on FreeBSD 4.7. I know its bad, I didn't note down the warnings etc since I was just trying to get it to compile first. I'm just posting it as an attempt as I plan to spend more time on it and get it to run properly, also its my first attempt at FreeBSD as well and I'm still trolling in it. I'll let the list know if I get it to work, and also since 5.0 is out I'm not sure if I want to stick with 4.7 anymore. This attempt was carried out on a completely default freebsd 4.7 installation and only automake+autoconf+libtool were upgraded to latest versions from fsf.org. Thanks for the help Burton!! Regards -- Musfa ------Original Message----- -From: Burton M. Strauss III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 8:06 AM -To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Subject: RE: [Ntop] FreeBSD (et al) and the .deps problem - -Around the time of your original message there were mail server problems - -many users submissions got blocked. IIRC Pisa blocked every ISP who had -ever had any user send spam to them. I know they blocked AT&T and a bunch -of other big ones. And they blocked based on the originating IP address, so -any customer of those ISPs, regardless of which mail server they used was -blocked. After the problems were fixed, I resent the ~80 messages that were -lost - hence the lag. - - -There are a couple of FreeBSD users I know of - Stanley Hopcroft in OZ is -running 4.7, Rob Trout has a couple of boxes. Tony Nelson has provided me -shell access in the past. Let's see... Mustafa Baig responded to the first -message in this chain about .deps. Others who've emailed the list WRT -FreeBSD the last two months include Tim Gardner, Jean Hernandez, Mark Cole -(runs 3.5.1 -- poor SOB), and Alvaro Pietrobono. - -I built piglet, a FreeBSD4.7 box this weekend for testing on this problem. -I'm going to move that to 5.0 next. I run FreeBSD 4.6.3 on Tigger as one of -the 6 OSes I use for ntop development - and FreeBSD is the only one I -regularly test under. - - -I've just committed a trap for the .deps problem and added docs/FAQ entries -for it. - -But realistically, it's a FreeBSD port problem - they're still distributing -the 1.5 version of automake, which was released a long, long, time ago. - -Index of ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake (lightly edited): - - automake-1.5.tar.gz 515 KB 2001-08-23 02:50:28 PM - automake-1.6.tar.gz 575 KB 2002-03-06 03:30:48 PM - automake-1.6.1.tar.gz 582 KB 2002-04-11 09:42:08 AM - automake-1.6.2.tar.gz 593 KB 2002-06-14 08:07:53 AM - automake-1.6.3.tar.gz 596 KB 2002-07-28 06:46:43 PM - automake-1.7.tar.gz 642 KB 2002-09-25 10:19:42 PM - automake-1.7.1.tar.gz 648 KB 2002-10-19 04:09:02 AM - automake-1.7.2.tar.gz 662 KB 2002-12-05 10:37:55 PM - -I realize that there are issues with auto* tool versions - check the back -traffic for some of my rants about them, especially the incompatibilities -'tween 1.6 and 1.7 (or 1.4 and 1.5 or 1.5 and 1.6 for that matter). - -Still, the problem is not ntop's - we clearly indicate our dependency on -1.6. If people bothered to READ the output from ./configure, the error -message that occurs during the depcomp copy is clearly in there -- even -without the trap I just put. With the trap, well, ./configure will stop and -they can't ignore it. - -As to why there aren't a lot of posts? My guesses - -1) People are happy with the old version of ntop in the FreeBSD ports. -Which, BTW is ntop-2.0.99-rc2.tgz, i.e. a release candidate for ntop 2.1 - -they really should be updated to 2.1.3 for a LOT of reasons. - -or - -2) Since the problem was only exposed if you executed automake and that -happened only if you didn't have depcomp, I'm guessing that they just keep -reusing the same directory. If you download and untar into the same -directory (e.g. ntop-current), then it updates the various files (giving you -the 1.6.3 generated files) and since you already depcomp, it doesn't remake -them... so no .deps problem! - - ------Burton - - - ------Original Message----- -From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of E. -Farah -Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 9:35 AM -To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Subject: [Ntop] FreeBSD (et al) and the .deps problem - - - -Burton, - -This is the sort of thing that I was hoping not to get into. No I am not -owed an answer, and I know this is a free list. I was just hoping to intiate -an interesting discussion around Ntop that would benefit other users, not -just myself. - -Thanks for your reply regarding TCPUDMP, I did not see it since it was sent -2 weeks after I post it. - -I know a lot of FreeBSD users run Ntop. I am surprised there's not too many -post around it. - -I am only receiving the daily digests now that's why I don't have the -original message, but I will change that. - -_______________________________________________ -Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] -http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
