Re: [mod-security-users] ModSecurity was not compiled with JSON support

[Boris K. <bor...@gm...>]

Hi I had the sam issue on Centos.

Fix it with:
yum install yajl-devel



On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:47 AM Dino Edwards via mod-security-users <
mod...@li...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I’m getting the following error in my security audit log:
>
>
>
> "error":"ModSecurity was not compiled with JSON support.
>
>
>
> I’m using Ubuntu 18.04 and Modsecurity 3.0.3. I’ve installed the
> libyajl-dev library. When trying to compile Modsecurity I get the following
> output:
>
>
>
> ./configure --with-yajl="/usr/local/lib"
>
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
>
> checking for gawk... gawk
>
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>
> checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
>
> checking for g++... g++
>
> checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
>
> checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
>
> checking for suffix of executables...
>
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>
> checking for suffix of object files... o
>
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
>
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
>
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
>
> checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
>
> checking for gcc... gcc
>
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>
> checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
>
> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
>
> checking for ar... ar
>
> checking the archiver (ar) interface... ar
>
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
>
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
>
> configure: YAJL library found at: /usr/local/lib//libyajl.so
>
> configure: error: YAJL was explicitly referenced but it was not found
>
> root@aegis-waf-ovh:/opt/ModSecurity# ./configure
> --with-yajl="/usr/local/lib /usr/local"
>
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
>
> checking for gawk... gawk
>
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>
> checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
>
> checking for g++... g++
>
> checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
>
> checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
>
> checking for suffix of executables...
>
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>
> checking for suffix of object files... o
>
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
>
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
>
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
>
> checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
>
> checking for gcc... gcc
>
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>
> checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
>
> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
>
> checking for ar... ar
>
> checking the archiver (ar) interface... ar
>
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
>
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
>
> configure: error: YAJL was explicitly referenced but it was not found
>
> root@aegis-waf-ovh:/opt/ModSecurity# ./configure
> --with-yajl="/usr/local/lib"
>
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
>
> checking for gawk... gawk
>
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>
> checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
>
> checking for g++... g++
>
> checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
>
> checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
>
> checking for suffix of executables...
>
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>
> checking for suffix of object files... o
>
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
>
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
>
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
>
> checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
>
> checking for gcc... gcc
>
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>
> checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
>
> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
>
> checking for ar... ar
>
> checking the archiver (ar) interface... ar
>
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
>
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
>
> configure: YAJL library found at: /usr/local/lib//libyajl.so
>
> configure: error: YAJL was explicitly referenced but it was not found
>
>
>
> I would appreciate some help
>
>
>
> Thanks!
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