[ale] Trying to setup snort on FC3

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I know I'm a bit behind the ball, but I've finally got some time / 
equipment to start tinkering with snort.  The box is a 300 (well, 
334.069) MHz PIII with 96MB RAM, and it's running Fedora Core 3.  It's 
basically a stock install that's had yum update ran on it.  My original 
preference for installing software (on a RH / FC) box is to use 
available RPM's, but the snort folks seem to frown on that, so I'm going 
the source route.  So, I downloaded snort-2.3.3.tar.gz from the snort 
website, and got started.  The ./configure script started running, but 
complained that there was no Libpcre header (checking for pcre.h 
presence, no).  So, I headed over to pcre.org, hoping to find an RPM, 
but no such luck.  Checked rpm.pbone.net, but nothing there either.  So, 
I downloaded the source, and tried to configure that, but got an error 
that my cpp had failed it's sanity check (configure: error: C++ 
preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check).  The box has cpp-3.4.3-22 
and gcc-3.4.3-22 installed (per rpm -qa | grep cpp gcc).  Before I go 
heading off into the wild digital yonder, can anyone offer any assistance?