# Compile Errors in Linux
**URL:** https://community.zeek.org/t/compile-errors-in-linux/20
**Category:** Zeek
**Created:** [September 18, 1998, 3:13am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/compile-errors-in-linux/20 "1998-09-18T03:13:17Z")
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### Author:  [@Vern](https://community.zeek.org/u/Vern)
#### Post date: [September 18, 1998, 3:13am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/compile-errors-in-linux/20/1 "1998-09-18T03:13:17Z")
Craig Leres is working on porting Bro to our local Linux box (the earlier
patches were contributed by a 0.3 alpha tester for their particular Linux
system). Expect a 0.5 release soon.
There was a question earlier about replacing a use of "bgp" with 179/tcp
and speculation that this is because the compiler reads /etc/services.
That's right. This has turned out to be a portability headache. I guess
the right way to fix it is to predefine a bunch of names for particular
ports; I'm not all that happy with such a solution, though, because it
eats up id's from the namespace, some of which are of no interest at all
in some environments.
Vern
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/compile-errors-in-linux/20/2 "2022-05-06T15:36:03Z")