[Open-scap] Systemdunitproperty issue

[Jan Cerny]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Grubb" <sgrubb at redhat.com>
> To: open-scap-list at redhat.com
> Cc: "Jan Cerny" <jcerny at redhat.com>, "Rocio Romero" <rocio at wazuh.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 7:08:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Open-scap] Systemdunitproperty issue
> 
> On Monday, July 11, 2016 3:13:55 AM EDT Jan Cerny wrote:
> > That happens usually when your system is missing some of the required
> > header
> > files. I think it can be dbus.h, located in
> > /usr/include/dbus-1.0/dbus/dbus.h, provided by dbus-devel package. Try to
> > install dbus-devel using "yum install dbus-devel" and then run "./configure
> > && make && make install" again.
> > 
> > I can see the dbus-devel package is not included in our README in the build
> > dependencies list, I will add it there soon.
> > 
> > You should be able to identify the missing header files in output produced
> > by ./configure, eg:
> > 
> >  * Checking presence of required headers for the systemdunitproperty probe
> >  811 checking for dbus/dbus.h... yes
> >  812 checking for string.h... (cached) yes
> 
> MIssing headers should error out the configure script if the passed configure
> script options requires them.

Yes, but this does not affect the probes. If some header required for a probe
is missing, then that particular probe is not compiled, but others are built successfully. 
We need this behavior because this way we don't compile e.g. systemd probes on RHEL6
or rpm probes on Debian.

Jan Černý
Security Technologies | Red Hat, Inc.
> -Steve
> 
>