ClamAV 0.90, another bummer

[Jeff A. Earickson]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Richard.Hall wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:17:55 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Richard.Hall <Richard.Hall at ingenta.com>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: ClamAV 0.90, another bummer
> 
>
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, René Berber wrote:
>
>> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>
>>> More sad news on ClamAV 0.90 for you Solaris users...
>>>
>>> You have to configure it with --disable-bzip2, even if you have
>>> the latest bzip2, version 1.0.4 installed.  Clam expects a
>>> shared library for bzip2, but the default makefile for bzip2
>>> just builds an archive lib.  The "make -f Makefile-libbz2_so"
>>> failed for me with Solaris 10 and gcc 4.1.0 so no shared bzip2
>>> lib, ergo no bzip2 in Clam.
>>
>> Solaris 10 ships with a shared bzip2 library, under /usr/lib, ClamAV compiles
>> out of the box after you install gmp... only with other bzip2 installations
>> there is a small problem: there is no symbolic link from libbz2.so to
>> libbz2.so.1 or to the real library.
>> --
>
> Is it just me?? My Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 machines also have this.  I'm
> left wondering why anyone is installing it from SunFreeware in the first
> place?

Doh!!  You are right, there is a shared version in /usr/lib.  I blew away
the static version in /usr/local/lib, and clamav 0.90 compiled just fine.
Many thanks!

Jeff Earickson
Colby College