[Open-scap] compile - where is configure - 1.2.8

[Martin Preisler]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jules" <szgyuszi at aim.com>
> To: open-scap-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 2:27:04 PM
> Subject: [Open-scap] compile - where is configure - 1.2.8
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have downloaded the 1.2.8 tarball and there is no "configure" script in it,
> although the documentation says that you should run ./configure. Below the
> content of openscap-1.2.8. I have checked also version 1.2.7, but it is the
> same. Is something something from the documentation, something else needs to
> be run before?
> 
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 9565 Jan 18 15:42 .gitignore
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 391 Jan 18 15:42 AUTHORS
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 26436 Jan 18 15:42 COPYING
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 9512 Jan 18 15:42 INSTALL
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 4162 Jan 18 15:42 Makefile.am
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 26261 Jan 18 15:42 NEWS
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 4006 Jan 18 15:42 README.md
> drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 6 Jan 18 15:42 ac_probes
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 8847 Jan 18 15:42 acinclude.m4
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 55 Apr 5 15:53 autogen.sh
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 403 Jan 18 15:42 confgen.sh
> drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 3 Jan 18 15:42 config
> -rw------- 1 root root 4034 Mar 11 11:59 config.log
> -rwxrw-r-- 1 root root 104 Apr 5 15:57 configure.ac
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 6 Jan 18 15:42 cpe
> drwxrwxr-x 6 root root 6 Jan 18 15:42 dist
> drwxrwxr-x 6 root root 17 Jan 18 15:42 docs
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 39 Jan 18 15:42 lib
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 336 Jan 18 15:42 libopenscap.pc.in
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 49 Jan 18 15:42 m4
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2450 Jan 18 15:42 run.in
> drwxrwxr-x 11 root root 14 Jan 18 15:42 schemas
> drwxrwxr-x 13 root root 14 Jan 18 15:42 src
> drwxrwxr-x 6 root root 7 Jan 18 15:42 swig
> drwxrwxr-x 15 root root 21 Jan 18 15:42 tests
> drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 24 Jan 18 15:42 utils
> drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 19 Jan 18 15:42 xsl

Make sure you get the release tarball and not the automatic github tarball
from the tag. The configure script is one of the major differences between
the two.

https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap/releases/download/1.2.8/openscap-1.2.8.tar.gz

$ less openscap-1.2.8.tar.gz  | grep configure
-rwxrwxr-x jcerny/jcerny  977548 2016-01-18 09:26 openscap-1.2.8/configure

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Martin Preisler
Identity Management and Platform Security | Red Hat, Inc.