[MacPorts] #42156: libnasl: outdated and broken

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#42156: libnasl: outdated and broken
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 Reporter:  mojca@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
     Type:  defect   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal   |  Milestone:
Component:  ports    |    Version:
 Keywords:           |       Port:  libnasl
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 When checking the ticket #39383, it turns out that apart from #38114,
 `libnasl` is broken as well.

 I applied two naive patches (see attachments), but the software seems
 soooo awfully outdated. And given that there exists the `openvas-libnasl`
 port and that nobody reported a broken port, I strongly suspect that it
 could make a lot more sense to remove these `nessus` ports unless they are
 still needed (but they aren't usable anyway).

 I don't think that my libtool patch works properly anyway since even after
 applying it, the build fails with
 {{{
 /bin/sh /path/to/work/libnasl/libtool --silent --mode=compile
 /usr/bin/clang -pipe -pipe -Os -arch x86_64  `sh ./cflags`  -lrpcsvc
 `/opt/local/bin/nessus-config --libs` -o libnasl.la nasl_packet_forgery.lo
 nasl_socket.lo nasl_crypto.lo nasl_crypto2.lo nasl_http.lo nasl_host.lo
 nasl_text_utils.lo nasl_nessusd_glue.lo nasl_misc_funcs.lo
 nasl_cmd_exec.lo capture_packet.lo nasl_grammar.tab.lo nasl_tree.lo
 nasl_var.lo exec.lo lint.lo nasl_lex_ctxt.lo nasl_func.lo nasl_init.lo
 strutils.lo regex.lo lfind.lo preparse.lo nasl_server.lo nasl_debug.lo
 -rpath /opt/local/lib \
         -version-info 4:9:2
 libtool: compile: cannot determine name of library object from
 `libnasl.la'
 }}}

 What do you think about removing these ports?

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