Re: 'make policy' issues

[Eric Laganowski <eric@laganowski.net>]

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> 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.
>   
Re bison/yacc: I tried both, byacc and 'bison -y'
Re flex: What is the requirement for flex from selinux perspective? Is 
it known what build of flex is "known good"?


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