Re: A few Issues Building Snort++ (3.0.0-a4-b244) on Ubuntu

On 03/19/2018 02:15 PM, Jonathan McDowell via Snort-devel wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:55:34AM -0400, Russ via Snort-devel wrote:
>> On 3/17/18 2:04 AM, Noah Dietrich wrote:
>>> 3. Additional question -> will DAQ go to cmake in the future?
>>>
>>> Will DAQ move to cmake in the future?
>> There is no plan at this time to change DAQ to cmake.  Are you just
>> curious or is there a specific concern?
> It'd be nice to see DAQ move to pkg-config rather than the
> "daq-modules-config" binary - that would make things easier for cross
> compilation.
That's in the works.
>
>>> //-------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 4. Install location of snort binary seems off
>>>
>>> When I run configure_cmake.sh and specify the prefix path as the root of
>>> the drive (--prefix=/), most of the files are installed where you'd
>>> expect (/etc/snort, et cetera), however the snort binary is placed in
>>> /usr/bin/snort, this is different than previous installations, where
>>> setting the prefix to the root of the drive would install the snort
>>> binary to the /bin directory. is this a bug or by design?
>> Install should be using your prefix.  Maybe this broke with the recent use
>> of GNUInstallDirs.  However, we build and test using prefix all the time and
>> it is working here, but we probably never tried /.  I wouldn't expect it to
>> matter, but what happens if you use some other path?
> This is definitely a GNUInstallDirs issue; my bad. Apparently CMake
> special cases /, /usr + /opt:
>
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/blob/master/Modules/GNUInstallDirs.cmake#L73
>
That's sort of awkward, but it's enforcing a standard as stated in the 
macro comments.  I'm not sure how much we care.  Noah, was there a 
particular reason that you really wanted the binary installed into /bin 
rather than /usr/bin?

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