I installed binutils today, and still no luck.

The ar tool doesn't like the .a files.

I also tried exporting my shell's $PATH to include the linux ar:
/usr/linux/bin/
no luck. $ which    - points to the AIX ar utility

Did a "whereis ar" and two ar tools came up in separate locations.

I manually did a "ar cru os_xml.a .....", basically copied the line from
the install-*ossec*/src/os_xml/MakeFile. I specified the options and
arguments using absolute paths for each ar binary, to no avail. They
both can't read it:

File os_xml.a is not an archive file.

*i'm assuming that the binutils package had the ar binary, otherwise
someone else installed it on this system, (i'm the new admin, other gal
quit)*

Any other ideas?

Thanks

On 07/20/11 14:45, dan (ddp) wrote:
> You may need gnu binutils installed as well.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Jon Schipp <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've installed OSSEC successfully on other operating systems (FreeBSD,
>> Linux, OSX) but I'm having trouble with AIX 5.3.
>>
>> I'm trying to install it as an Agent.
>>
>> uname -a
>> AIX ibm52a 3 5 00007578D700
>>
>> I just installed gcc, make, and libgcc.
>>
>> I believe the problem has something to do with the ar program (i don't
>> know much about AIX)
>>
>> Hopefully, someone can point me in the right direction.
>>
>> (after running the install.sh - continuing from step 5)
>>
>> 5- Installing the system
>>  - Running the Makefile
>>
>>  *** Making zlib (by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler)  ***
>>        gcc -c -g -Wall -I../../ -I../../headers
>> -DDEFAULTDIR=\"/usr/ossec\" -DCLIENT -DUSE_OPENSSL -DAIX -DHIGHFIRST
>>  -DARGV0=\"zlib\" -DXML_VAR=\"var\" -DOSSECHIDS *.c
>>        ar cru libz.a *.o
>> ar: 0707-108 File libz.a is not an archive file.
>> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
>>
>>
>> Stop.
>>        cp -pr zlib.h zconf.h ../../headers/
>>        cp -pr libz.a ../
>>
>>
>>
>>  *** Making os_xml ***
>>
>>        gcc -DXML_VAR=\"var\" -g -Wall -I../ -I../headers
>> -DDEFAULTDIR=\"/usr/ossec\" -DCLIENT -DUSE_OPENSSL -DAIX -DHIGHFIRST
>>  -DARGV0=\"os_xml\" -DXML_VAR=\"var\" -DOSSECHIDS -c os_xml.c
>> os_xml_access.c os_xml_node_access.c os_xml_variables.c
>> os_xml_writer.c
>>        ar cru os_xml.a os_xml.o os_xml_access.o os_xml_node_access.o
>> os_xml_variables.o os_xml_writer.o
>> ar: 0707-108 File os_xml.a is not an archive file.
>> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
>>
>>
>> Stop.
>>
>> Error Making os_xml
>> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
>>
>>
>> Stop.
>>
>>  Error 0x5.
>>  Building error. Unable to finish the installation.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated,
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> - Jon
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