Cannot build anymore

[Sysadminfromhell]

Expected behavior

Building the openvas-scanner as descirbed in the documentation https://greenbone.github.io/docs/latest/22.4/source-build/index.html#id76

Actual behavior

Fails due to one missing .h file:

root@OpenVAS:~/build/openvas-scanner# make -j$(nproc)
[ 1%] Building C object misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/openvas-krb5.c.o
In file included from /root/source/openvas-scanner-23.14.0/misc/openvas-krb5.c:1:
/root/source/openvas-scanner-23.14.0/misc/openvas-krb5.h:1:10: fatal error: krb5/krb5.h: No such file or directory
1 | #include <krb5/krb5.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/build.make:300: misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/openvas-krb5.c.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:198: misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:166: all] Error 2

Steps to reproduce

follow the documentation and you will come to the same resolt with the newest version.

GVM versions

gsa: (gsad --version)
24.1.0

gvm: (gvmd --version)
24.1.2

openvas: (openvas --version)
23.14.0

gvm-libs:
22.15.1

openvas-smb:
22.5.6

Environment

Operating system:

Linux OpenVAS 6.1.0-23-cloud-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.99-1 (2024-07-15) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Installation method / source: (packages, source installation)

Source

Logfiles

cat /var/log/gvm/*
2025-01-10 12:24:02,702 notus-scanner: INFO: (notus.scanner.daemon) Starting notus-scanner version 22.6.5.
OSPD[25063] 2025-01-10 12:24:02,853: ERROR: (ospd_openvas.db) openvas executable not available. Please install openvas into your PATH.

[jjnicola]

Hi @Sysadminfromhell , It seems it is a duplicated from #1794. Take a look into (INSTALL.md)[https://github.com/greenbone/openvas-scanner/blob/main/INSTALL.md]. You should be able to fix the issue.
We will add the missing documentation. Thanks for reporting.

Regards,

[Sysadminfromhell]

Hi @jjnicola this kinda half fixed the issue, now I get a new one:

-- Build files have been written to: /root/build/openvas-scanner
[ 1%] Building C object misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/bpf_share.c.o
[ 2%] Building C object misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/ftp_funcs.c.o
[ 3%] Building C object misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/network.c.o
[ 5%] Building C object misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/plugutils.c.o
[ 6%] Building C object misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/pcap.c.o
[ 7%] Building C object misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/table_driven_lsc.c.o
[ 7%] Building C object misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/ipc.c.o
[ 8%] Building C object misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/user_agent.c.o
[ 10%] Building C object misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/scanneraux.c.o
[ 11%] Building C object misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/kb_cache.c.o
[ 12%] Building C object misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/heartbeat.c.o
[ 14%] Linking C shared library libopenvas_misc.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgssapi: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgssapi: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/build.make:353: misc/libopenvas_misc.so.23.14.0] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:198: misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:166: all] Error 2
[ 1%] Linking C shared library libopenvas_misc.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgssapi: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgssapi: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/build.make:353: misc/libopenvas_misc.so.23.14.0] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:198: misc/CMakeFiles/openvas_misc_shared.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:166: all] Error 2

[changkoo]

Just to add to this, on my current installation of Debian 12, the installation of krb5-dev will ask to remove heimdal-dev.

Just to follow it through, without heimdal-dev the build process completes but with many references that remain unaddressed, and ospd-openvas will not launch properly.

I was able to roll back openvas-scanner to 23.13.2, and everything seems to run properly.

[Sysadminfromhell]

I can confirm that behaviour, I changed my build script to install first for all modules needed heimdal and afterwords the krb5-dev but even in the build process for the openvas-scanner there is some things missing then from the heimdal-dev moduile. So currenty it cannot be build properly.

[nichtsfrei]

Hello, and thank you for pointing out this bug.

For openvas-smb please use heimdal-multidev, and for openvas, use krb5-multidev on Debian systems.

Unfortunately, openvas requires some minor changes as well.

These should be addressed in the following PRs:

• Switches from libkrb5-dev to krb5-multidev #1808
• Fix: docker container use heimdal-multidev openvas-smb#93

Documentation updates will follow, but they will need to be tested on Fedora/CentOS systems, which may take some time.