On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Darin Perusich <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
I think autotools are the wrong direction, but that's fairly off topic. > 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. -- --- 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.
