Also, perhaps moving to a build system like GNU autotools or CMake and away from the existing cludgy make system would make building ossec more portable. As someone who builds and maintains lots of packages, generating packages for ossec was not straight forward and took a lot of time to get right, see my RPM .spec from the OpenSUSE Build Service linked below.
When using a build system, I reference autotools since i use it the most, it will automatically find dependencies based on the development libraries available when running configure and build accordingly. Or say you want to set an alternate ossec basedir other than /var/ossec, currently you need to modify src/LOCATION, src/headers/defs.h, and sed a bunch of files. If using a build system one could simply run "configure --basedir=/whatever/ossec" and be on their way. https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/home:deadpoint/ossec-hids/ossec-hids.spec?expand=1 -- Later, Darin On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Jeremy Rossi <[email protected]> wrote: > Making sure that all code in OSSEC compiles and runs on all Unixes is > hard, and limiting. I would like to support the Manager only on Modern > Unixes: > > - Recent versions of BSD's > - Recent versions of Darwin > - Recent versions of Linux > > This proposal is only for the manager. The agent should run on anything > that we can get it to compile on. > > I would like to make this change so that we are able to bring in more > libraries, tools, and tricks from Modern Unixes to the OSSEC manager. > > I just want to start the conversation on the Mailing list before I start > writing anything up and get peoples feedback. > > Thank you, > > > > > -- > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ossec-list" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ossec-list" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
