Package: snort Version: 2.7.0-13 Severity: normal Dear Debian maintainer,
while backporting the package to etch in order to have a snort with prelude support, I've learnt the hard way that the includes configure skript tries a "test compile" against libprelude-dev where it also requires libgnutls-dev (which may not be installed on a build host). The "interesting" point is, that in this combination --enable-prelude is given on the configure line but the resulting package doesn't include prelude support. Simple QA-checks won't fail, but if you're trying to use the prelude functions, the resulting binary might fail. ---cut checking for libprelude - version >= 0.9.6... no *** Could not run libprelude test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means LIBPRELUDE was incorrectly installed *** or that you have moved LIBPRELUDE since it was installed. In the latter case, you *** may want to edit the libprelude-config script: /usr/bin/libprelude-config ---cut Reason from config.log: ---cut configure:23977: checking for libprelude-config configure:23995: found /usr/bin/libprelude-config configure:24008: result: /usr/bin/libprelude-config configure:24016: checking for libprelude - version >= 0.9.6 configure:24104: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -I/usr/include/mysql -DENABLE_MYSQL -L/usr/lib -lpcre -L/usr/lib -pthread conftest.c -lmysqlclient -lz -lpcre -lpcap -lm -lnsl -L/usr/lib -lprelude -L/usr/lib -lgnutls -lgcrypt -lgpg-error -lrt -ldl >&5 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgnutls collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:24107: $? = 1 configure: program exited with status 1 [...] configure:24175: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -I/usr/include/mysql -DENABLE_MYSQL -L/usr/lib -lpcre -L/usr/lib -pthread conftest.c -lmysqlclient -lz -lpcre -lpcap -lm -lnsl -L/usr/lib -lprelude -L/usr/lib -lgnutls -lgcrypt -lgpg-error -lrt -ldl >&5 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgnutls collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:24181: $? = 1 ---cut >From some point of view, libgnutls-dev ought to be a dependency in libprelude-dev, but libprelude-dev is also usable without gnutls. Snort's use of libprelude-dev seems to includes the usage of libgnutls-dev, so in my eyes, adding a build-dependency to libgnutls-dev should resolve this issue. Anders -- 1&1 Internet AG System Design Brauerstrasse 48 v://49.721.91374.50 D-76135 Karlsruhe f://49.721.91374.225 Amtsgericht Montabaur HRB 6484 Vorstand: Henning Ahlert, Ralph Dommermuth, Matthias Ehrlich, Andreas Gauger, Thomas Gottschlich, Matthias Greve, Robert Hoffmann, Markus Huhn, Achim Weiss Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Michael Scheeren -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
