This feature was never publicly released, and has not been distributed
in our binary builds for a couple versions now. It needed to be removed
in order to reduce the number of places Nmap looks for data files. See #2051
This is to avoid having a warning saying that there is no makefile.dep
file, which will be generated right after the warning and then
included in the Makefile.
Lua 5.3 adds several awesome features of particular interest to nmap including
bitwise operators and integers, a utf8 library, and standard binary pack/unpack
functions.
In addition to adding Lua 5.3, this branch changes:
o Complete removal of the NSE bit library (in C), It has been replaced with
a new Lua library wrapping Lua 5.3's bit-wise operators.
o Complete removal of the NSE bin library (in C). It has been replaced with a
new Lua library wrapping Lua 5.3's string.pack|unpack functions.
o The bin.pack "B" format specifier (which has never worked correctly) is
unimplemented. All scripts/libraries which use it have been updated. Most
usage of this option was to allow string based bit-wise operations which are no
longer necessary now that Lua 5.3 provides integers and bit-wise operators.
o The base32/base64 libraries have been reimplemented using Lua 5.3's new
bitwise operators. (This library was the main user of the bin.pack "B" format
specifier.)
o A new "bits" library has been added for common bit hacks. Currently only has
a reverse function.
Thanks to David Fifield, Daniel Miller, Jacek Wielemborek, and Paulino
Calderon for testing this branch.
Doesn't matter on most platforms because our own object (.o) files
require the symbols from libnbase, so all of them have been linked by
the time libnsock is encountered, but vasprintf and asprintf were
causing problems on platforms that need the versions defined in
libnbase.
$ svn merge -r r33518:r33513 .
and removed added scripts to the script.db.
The branch needs further refinement/testing for Windows and Mac before merging
into the trunk. There is also the latent EOF bug which is giving performance
issues.
Further work on the branch will continue in Devin's latest branch:
/nmap-exp/devin/nmap-libssh2
