Hi Stevee and Michael,
thank you both for checking this out and for the merge.

Best,

Erik

On Do, 2019-06-06 at 08:54 +0100, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Okay. Merged.
> 
> > On 5 Jun 2019, at 18:10, Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl(a)ipfire.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Michael & Erik,
> > 
> > when building suricata here, the build process automatically
> > detected
> > and successfully linked the final suricata binary against
> > libjannson.
> > 
> > I'm fine with your patch, because it hard switches libjannson
> > support
> > to on and the entire build process would be fail, if the library
> > could
> > not be linked or the include files are missing....
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > -Stefan
> > 
> > Acked-by: Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl(a)ipfire.org>
> > 
> > > Hi Michael,
> > > 
> > > On Mi, 2019-06-05 at 09:53 +0100, Michael Tremer wrote:
> > > > Hi Erik,
> > > > 
> > > > I believe that Stefan has already enabled this in this commit:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=commitdiff;h=616395f37c6d096607283cc17e5554cc03e9bcc6
> > > 
> > > this is indeed a needed step to build Jansson before Suricata, 
> > > made the same while an experimental try with EVEbox 
> > > --> https://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=22693#p124673
> > > but there was also the need to include the jansson libs in the
> > > LFS
> > > too.
> > > 
> > > > Are you saying that the library wasn’t linked before?
> > > 
> > > Have looked in version 'v2.23-core131-215-gc899be2fd' where
> > > Stefans 
> > > patch is already included but if i change to chroot and execute a
> > > 
> > > suricata --build-info | grep jansson
> > > 
> > > i get
> > > 
> > >  libjansson support:                      no
> > > 
> > > so yes, i think the library isn´t linked even Jansson has been
> > > build
> > > before Suricata.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > I am not sure what this patch is meant to achieve - assuming
> > > > that
> > > > Stefan’s change isn’t broken.
> > > 
> > > Possibly Suricata do not searches automatically for libjansson ?
> > > 
> > > > -Michael
> > > 
> > > Best,
> > > 
> > > Erik
> > > 
> > > > > On 4 Jun 2019, at 14:00, Erik Kapfer <ummeegge(a)ipfire.org>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > The EVE output facility outputs alerts, metadata, file info
> > > > > and
> > > > > protocol specific records through JSON.
> > > > > for further informations please see --> 
> > > > > 
https://suricata.readthedocs.io/en/suricata-4.1.2/output/eve/index.html
> > > > > .
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Erik Kapfer <ummeegge(a)ipfire.org>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > lfs/suricata | 2 ++
> > > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > > > 
> > > > > diff --git a/lfs/suricata b/lfs/suricata
> > > > > index 310920606..6f779d875 100644
> > > > > --- a/lfs/suricata
> > > > > +++ b/lfs/suricata
> > > > > @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ $(TARGET) : $(patsubst
> > > > > %,$(DIR_DL)/%,$(objects))
> > > > > 		--enable-nfqueue \
> > > > > 		--disable-static \
> > > > > 		--disable-python \
> > > > > +		--with-libjansson-libraries=/usr/lib \
> > > > > +		--with-libjansson-includes=/usr/include \
> > > > > 		--disable-suricata-update
> > > > > 	cd $(DIR_APP) && make $(MAKETUNING)
> > > > > 	cd $(DIR_APP) && make install
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > 2.12.2
> > > > > 
> 
>