Cool beans - I've updated BUILD-NTOP.txt - thanks for catching that. -----Burton
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of E. Farah Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Ntop] FreeBSD (et al) and the .deps problem 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]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >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. >- >-_______________________________________________ >-Ntop mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >-http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop >_______________________________________________ >Ntop mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
