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Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:42:37 +0200
From: magnum <rawsmooth@...dband.net>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Plugin formats "released"

On 2011-07-23 23:15, Solar Designer wrote:
> The dependency on GNU make is nasty,
> but it is tricky and maybe unreasonable to avoid it (e.g., running a
> configure script before make wouldn't be obviously better).

It worked on Solaris' make before the changes you did (explanation below).

> So, I started with john-1.7.8-jumbo-2-plugin.diff (yes, I didn't use the
> tarball), did the renames with rename(1) (moved files _not_ to be
> renamed to a subdirectory temporarily), made sure things worked for me

I forgot to explain that, but like Jim just said it's all about 
auto-load order. I'm not very happy with "NETSPLITLM" as file name (for 
NETHALFLM format), but I couldn't come up with any better that would 
load before NETLM. Apart from auto-load order, the file names does not 
change anything in the resulting binary (format label etc. is still 
NETHALFLM).

> I did not understand the rationale behind some of:
>
> # Should work on Solaris and gmake
> PLUGFORMATS_SRCS: sh =if [ -f *_plug.c ]; then ls *_plug.c; fi
> PLUGFORMATS_SRCS += $(shell ls *_plug.c)
> PLUGFORMATS_OBJS = $(PLUGFORMATS_SRCS:.c=.o)

The comment should better have been "DOES work on Solaris make and 
gmake". The first line is a no-op (or empty result or whatever) on gmake 
but it does make this work on Solaris make!

> So I simplified it to:
>
> # Requires GNU make (under Solaris, use "gmake")
> PLUGFORMATS_SRCS = $(wildcard *_plug.c)
> PLUGFORMATS_OBJS = $(PLUGFORMATS_SRCS:.c=.o)

You reverted it to my first version that really requires gmake. Jim came 
up with the Solaris-compatible way and tested it.

> Then, I did not like the grep|sed|awk commands, which I simplified to
> single invocations of sed:

Fine with me!

magnum

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