Suricata 6.0.6 fails to compile with pf_ring 8

[greg (Greg Grasmehr)]

Hello,

I just began to experience this on a fresh install, the solution is
adding CFLAGS=“-D_GNU_SOURCE” at the end of the configure command

Thanks to Lucas Sismis for the tip found on this page

Installing Suricata 6.0.1 with PF_RING on CentOS8

Hello everyone, after a problematic install, I thought of writing a little guide to hopefully ease your pain while compiling Suricata on CentOS8 with PF_RING. During ./configure --enable-pfring phase I was always hit by an error checking for pfring_open in -lpfring... yes ERROR! --enable-pfring was passed but the library version is < 6, go get it from http://www.ntop.org/products/pf_ring/ despite the fact I had PF_RING installed. So, to start from the beginning, I installed PF_RING …

Greg