Here is my situation:
I upgraded automake to version 1.6.3 as per Burton's previous advise http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.6.3.tar.gz. Before that I had automake 1.5,1 according to the BUILD-NTOP.txt doc. Although I did not see any error messages in the config output, I still got the .deps errors but Ntop compiled and ran ok with the only exception of rrdplugin.
With automake 1.6.3, autoconf-2.53 and libtool-1.3.4_4 ALL WORKS LIKE A CHARM !!!!
Although I don't advocate the use of libtool-1.3.4_4 it worked fine for me.
Here is my version of Ntop on FreeBSD: ntop v.2.1.54 MT (SSL) [i386-unknown-freebsd4.5] (01/20/03 11:21:03 AM build)
I wanted rrd badly and now I have. I have all the functionalities of Ntop on FreeBSD. The key was automake 1.6.3.
Thank you Burton
E. Farah
From: "Mustafa Baig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [Ntop] FreeBSD (et al) and the .deps problem Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:00:42 -0800
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.
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