p5-Cflow and flow-tools

[Charles Sprickman]

Oops...  I auto-update every Saturday, so I guess I missed this:

http://www.freshports.org/net-mgmt/p5-Cflow/

It was committed Wednesday.  Sorry for the noise.

Thanks,

Charles

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Frank J. Laszlo wrote:

> There is a knob for this in my ports. It appears to set the appropriate 
> options explicitly in the Makefile. Like this:
>
> .if defined(WITH_FLOW_TOOLS)
> LIB_DEPENDS+=   ${LOCALBASE}/lib/libft.a:${PORTSDIR}/net-mgmt/flow-tools
>
> CFLAGS+=        -I${LOCALBASE}/include -DOSU
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        \
>       "LDDLFLAGS= -shared -L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lft -lz" \
>       "INC= -I${LOCALBASE}/include" "LDLOADLIBS= -L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lft 
> -lz"
> .endif
>
> Which should override the Makefile.PL mechanism for finding the location of 
> flowtools. Please cvsup your ports and verify this. if in fact it is not 
> working how it should, I will be glad to write a patch for it. Hope this 
> helps.
>
> Regards,
>   Frank Laszlo
>
>
> Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> I don't see a specific maintainer, so I'll send this here...
>> 
>> p5-Cflow has support for using flow-tools output rather than cflowd output, 
>> and flow-tools is the recommended netflow collection tool these days.
>> 
>> There's a section of Makefile.PL where the package checks to see if it's 
>> being built inside the flow-tools hierarchy.  It does not check the 
>> standard /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include paths.  But if you edit 
>> Makefile.PL to look like this:
>> 
>> sub find_flow_tools {
>>    my($ver, $dir);
>>    my($libdir, $incdir);
>>    if (-f '/usr/local/lib/libft.a') {
>>       $dir = '/usr/local/lib';
>>       $incdir = "-I/usr/local/include";
>>       $libdir = "-L$dir";
>>    }
>> 
>> It builds fine and links in the flow-tools stuff.  This is needed if you 
>> want to say, run flowscan and you run flow-tools.
>> 
>> I don't know enough about ports to fix this, but it seems the port's 
>> Makefile could offer this as an option...
>> 
>> Charles
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