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Re: 'make policy' issues

From: Stephen Smalley <sds_at_nospam>
Date: Wed Oct 21 2009 - 15:16:00 GMT
To: Eric Laganowski <eric@laganowski.net>


On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:06 -0400, Eric Laganowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was trying to build selinux userspace tools on my custom linux build.
> Everything went fine until I attempted to compile reference policy.
> Could you please help me in understanding what went wrong here.
>
> refpolicy-2.20090730
>
> $ make policy
> Compiling refpolicy policy.24
> /usr/bin/checkpolicy policy.conf -o policy.24
> /usr/bin/checkpolicy: loading policy configuration from policy.conf
> policy/modules/kernel/corenetwork.te":1715:ERROR 'syntax error' at token ':' on line 9122:
> allow corenet_unconfined_type node_type:node *;
>
> checkpolicy: error(s) encountered while parsing configuration
> make: *** [policy.24] Error 1
>
>
> Packages:
>
> checkpolicy-2.0.19
> libselinux-2.0.85
> libsemanage-2.0.33
> libsepol-2.0.37
> policycoreutils-2.0.69
> sepolgen-1.0.17
>
> $ yacc -V
> yacc - 1.9 20090221
> $ flex -V
> flex 2.5.35

Sounds similar to:
http://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=117076095205821&w=2

which was an upstream flex problem. However, I also see that you are using yacc rather than bison? Default for building checkpolicy is bison -y, which could be relevant. -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.