[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/libnids: new package

[Guillaume Bres]

Sorry for the rapid posts about the same topic,
but on the other hand, further discussions will be more fruitful

First off, it turns out libnids in the current configuration completely
fits my needs

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Trying to build libnids with libnet:

   - libnet does not have a pkg-config description file, so what I
   previously said/thought cannot apply
   - unfortunately because of that, removing --disable-libnet option from
   configure, has LNETLIB & LNET_CFLAGS pointing to /usr/include
   - they have a --with-libnet option, I tried something like
   --with-libnet=$(STAGING_DIR), but they look for a very specific combination

     if test -f $withval/include/libnet.h -a -f $withval/lib/libnet.a -a -f
> $withval/libnet-config ; then  (line 133 in $libnids/configure.in)
>


   - $withval/include/libnet.h exists, we have a $withval/lib/libnet.la but
   that is not exactly what they want, $withval/libnet-config does not exist
   - so at the moment I am not able to submit anything further about this
   topic, because of the combination of files they look for. I don't think
   messing with $libnids/configure.in is an option either, that would be
   too dirty
   - I am not familiar with pkg-config at the moment, I don't know if we
   can "activate libnet.pc" and have pkg-config look for it

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Trying to build libnids with glib2 if possible

   -  no problem, I may submit a patch in a near future


Guillaume W. Bres
Software engineer
<guillaume.bressaix at gmail.com>


Le mar. 23 juin 2020 à 11:07, Guillaume Bres <guillaume.bressaix at gmail.com>
a écrit :

> correction:
>
> Let's say I introduce a "BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNIDS_WITH_LIBNET" option,
>>
>
>  I will rather check in the .mk script if BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNET is in use and
> adapt dependencies & configure flags,
> rather than introducing a BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNIDS_ sub option.
>
> question about the patch still applies though
>
> Guillaume W. Bres
> Software engineer
> <guillaume.bressaix at gmail.com>
>
>
> Le mar. 23 juin 2020 à 11:01, Guillaume Bres <guillaume.bressaix at gmail.com>
> a écrit :
>
>> Hello Thomas,
>>
>> thank you for your input
>>
>> glibc is not required: it builds fine with uclibc.
>>> > +     select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2
>>
>> This dependency is not mandatory, so I dropped it. It should be easy to
>>> re-add it with a follow-up patch.
>>
>>
>> Ok, I did not see the configure script had options to disable them, it's
>> better to have a default package compatible with everyone
>>
>> (2) Passing the appropriate install_prefix value at install time,
>>
>>  since the hand-written Makefile.in use install_prefix and not DESTDIR
>>
>>
>> it's cleaner to override at the given step (I'll keep that!)
>>
>> if you need the libglib and libnet optional dependencies, don't
>>> hesitate to send follow-up patches to add support for them.
>>
>>
>> I need to check whether I need libglib because it's not obvious. But I
>> certainly need libnet.
>>
>> Let's say I introduce a "BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNIDS_WITH_LIBNET" option,
>> if I add a 0002-patch to also have libnet checked with pkg-config,
>> Is it fine with you having a patch always applied, even though we are in
>> the --disable-libnet context?
>>
>> Guillaume W. Bres
>> Software engineer
>> <guillaume.bressaix at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> Le lun. 22 juin 2020 à 22:27, Thomas Petazzoni <
>> thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> Hello Guillaume,
>>>
>>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 12:53:59 +0200
>>> "Guillaume W. Bres" <guillaume.bressaix at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Libnids is a C based networking library,
>>> > part of networking intrusion detection tools.
>>> > It can watch network traffic & provide informations.
>>> >
>>> > Signed-off-by: Guillaume W. Bres <guillaume.bressaix at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> I have applied your patch, with a number of changes. See below for
>>> comments, and see the final commit at:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=b6ce06cd64b0d85c9065c60fad933c8585730320
>>>
>>>
>>> > +config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNIDS
>>> > +     bool "libnids"
>>> > +     depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC
>>>
>>> glibc is not required: it builds fine with uclibc.
>>>
>>> > +     select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2
>>>
>>> This dependency is not mandatory, so I dropped it. It should be easy to
>>> re-add it with a follow-up patch.
>>>
>>> > +     select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNET
>>>
>>> This dependency is not mandatory, so I dropped it. Re-adding it is
>>> possible, but will need some tweaks in the configure.in script.
>>>
>>> > +     select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBPCAP
>>>
>>> This dependency is indeed mandatory.
>>>
>>>
>>> > +LIBNIDS_VERSION = 1.24
>>> > +LIBNIDS_SITE =
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/libnids/files/libnids/$(LIBNIDS_VERSION)
>>> > +LIBNIDS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
>>> > +LIBNIDS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
>>> > +LIBNIDS_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
>>>
>>> You forgot the _DEPENDENCIES variable, so nothing ensured that your
>>> dependencies are built before this package.
>>>
>>> > +LIBNIDS_CONF_OPTS += \
>>> > +     prefix="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr" \
>>> > +     exec_prefix="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr"
>>>
>>> So, I instead fixed this by:
>>>
>>>  (1) Adding a patch for the configure.in script that changes the
>>>  detection of libpcap to use pkg-config
>>>
>>>  (2) Passing the appropriate install_prefix value at install time,
>>>  since the hand-written Makefile.in use install_prefix and not DESTDIR
>>>
>>> If you need the libglib and libnet optional dependencies, don't
>>> hesitate to send follow-up patches to add support for them.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>> --
>>> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
>>> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
>>> https://bootlin.com
>>>
>>
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