Re: Some comments on IP Filter 4

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Darren Reed wrote:
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>>1. Everything in ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/pub/net/ip-filter/ is out of
>>date. It has pfil2.1 and ip_fil4.1.3 - these are way old. Either remove
>>this directory, or update it
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>
> fixed.

Thanks!
(BTW, the bullets on the site under "included with following OS's" are
messed up - you're missing a few DD and IMG tags).

>>5. I noticed that the Solaris instructions still say not to use gmake -
>>but several Sun employees have told me /usr/ccs/bin/make is considered
>>deprecated and only there for backwards compatiblity, and I should use
>>gmake or dmake. Is there a reason the makefiles don't work with gmake?
>>There's a test to make sure you don't use it, but why?
>
> So long as it keeps working, what's the problem?
> When/if they remove /usr/ccs/bin/make, then I'll worry...

There's no problem. It's a pretty crufty make. As long as you don't
require anything in /usr/ucb I'm OK. I was just throwing it out, as I've
never seen a makefile that worked with solaris make but not gnu make.

>>6. I can't seem to build with gcc3 but gcc2 worked fine (not I'm on
>>intel, 32bit). This is what I get with gcc3:
>>
>>gcc -I. -g -I../.. -D_BSD_SOURCE -DSOLARIS2=9 -c ../../lib/debug.c -o
>>debug.o
>>./../lib/debug.c: In function `debug':
>>./../lib/debug.c:30: error: `__builtin_va_alist' undeclared (first use
>>in this function)
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>
> This is usually a general inidcation that your gcc installation is not
> perfect.

Someone sent me an email saying this happens with versions of gcc 3 >
3.2.x, but < 3.2.x works. They also pointed me to the 3.3 readme which I
haven't had time to read yet.

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