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> On Feb 19, 2014, at 11:55 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.

I think we can pull this out into another thread.  I am down with the idea and 
will support and help someone starting this.  I port ossec to waf 3 years ago 
just did not get it pushes in. 


> 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,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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