On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:56 AM, dan (ddp) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

I have no preference, its simply widely used and makes for easy examples ;-)

>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/home:deadpoint/ossec-hids/ossec-hids.spec?expand=1
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>> 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,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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