[oe] [PATCH 1/1] snort: fix m4 causes out of memory during configure [ LIN8-299 ]

[Zhiquan Li]

On 2015.10.29 19:11, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:04:02AM +0200, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:41:52 +0800
>> Zhiquan Li <zhiquan.li at windriver.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 2015.10.27 18:49, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:54:07 +0000
>>>> "Li, Zhiquan" <Zhiquan.Li at windriver.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I need to evaluate the possibility to upgrade the snort recipe to
>>>>>> 2.9.7, because upgrade to > 2.9.7, some patches will not work
>>>>>> anymore and the daq recipe also need to be upgraded to 2.0.4 at
>>>>>> least. The side-effect is uncertainty.
>>>> What exactly do you mean by "patches will not work anymore"?.
>>>> Do you mean thy do not apply on >2.9.7? AFAIK two of those
>>>> patches are not needed in 2.9.7.6 (fixed upstream), the others
>>>> just need refreshing.
>>> I've tried to upgrade snort from 2.9.6.0 to 2.9.7.5, as its
>>> dependency I also upgrade daq recipe from 2.0.2 to 2.0.6, and
>>> accordingly update the patches:
>>> * add 2 new patches for snort to solve the cross compile issues.
>>> * discard a snort patch since it is not needed.
>>> * refresh the patch for daq new version.
>>> Please see the attachment for the changes.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately , it was failed when packaging debug files, the rpm
>>> debugedit complain: canonicalization unexpectedly shrank by one
>>> character. At a glance it is a bug of debugedit, please see:
>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/snort/mailman/message/34130268/
>>> Redhat hasn't resolved this bug:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304121
>>>
>>> So, the options are:
>>> * Fix rpm debugedit bug and update it to OE
>>> * Take the workaround that skip the snort debug package
>>> * Backport the fix from snort upstream
>>>
>> IMO anything rpm-based is fundamentally broken and not worth fixing
>> because of these kind of long-standing bugs. You spend tons of time
>> fixing one, then just hit another that was also ignored for +8 years.
>>
>> I don't think we should skip the debug package entirely because ipks
>> and debs should be fine. If it is possible to skip only rpm-debug pkgs
>> then this would be the best way to go IMO.
>>
>> Not upgrading the package and backporting fixes only to avoid this rpm
>> bug should be the last option.
>>
>> @Martin and @Khem, do you have any suggestions?
> I've already merged this change to master-next and I plan to merge it to
> master and jethro soon (when jenkins builds are finished).
>
> It's good incremental step (fixes the root cause why it was
> blacklisted), upgrade to newer version is also good, but can be separate
> and only for master branch (as jethro is almost closed now).
>
> "canonicalization unexpectedly shrank by one character" is something we
> have to fix from time to time, but it's always doable in the component
> source (usually double slash in one of the paths), so it's not 8+ years
> kind of issue.
>
> Regards,
Many thanks, Martin!

I saw your fix for "canonicalization unexpectedly shrank by one 
character" issue:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-October/084960.html

Some redundant '/' were sneakingly inserted into snort binary and lead 
to the rpm debugedit error finally.
I've submitted a new patch so that snort can be upgraded to 2.9.7+:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2015-November/104661.html

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Best Regards,
Li Zhiquan