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Snort installation on RHEL 6.2 64 bit

I am installing snort on RHEL 6.2

I am trying to install DAQ.

I am running

make install

and getting below error:

RCE -module -export-dynamic -avoid-version -shared -L/usr/lib -ldnet -o daq_ipq.la -rpath /usr/local/lib/daq daq_ipq_la-daq_ipq.lo -lipq -L/usr/lib -ldnet ../sfbpf/libsfbpf.la ) libtool: relink: gcc -shared .libs/daq_ipq_la-daq_ipq.o -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -lipq -ldnet -L/usr/local/lib -lsfbpf -Wl,-soname -Wl,daq_ipq.so -o .libs/daq_ipq.so /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libdnet.a(addr.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against .rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/libdnet.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status libtool: install: error: relinkdaq_ipq.la' with the above command before installing it make[2]: * [install-pkglibLTLIBRARIES] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/daq-0.6.2/os-daq-modules'

make[1]: * [install-am] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/daq-0.6.2/os-daq-modules'

make: * [install-recursive] Error 1

Please help

Solution

  • After this, it worked:

        $tar zxvf /root/snort-packages/libdnet-1.12.tgz
    $cd libdnet-1.12
    $ ./configure "CFLAGS=-fPIC -g -O2" --prefix=/usr
    $make
    $make install
    $ yum install libdnet-devel
    $ locate libdnet
    $ ln -s libdnet.1 libdnet.so.1
    $ cp /usr/lib64/libdnet.so.1 /usr/local/lib/libdnet.so.1