Good thought - need to check if linuxrelease is reporting this as 2.7 or
7... that will affect the configureextra name.

Still, as I said earlier, the real error messages are those in config.log
and understanding them is key.

-----Burton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike
> Tremaine
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Ntop] Please help, Solaris 7 configure problems.
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 06:04, Boocock, John (CSS) wrote:
> > Hi there, I'm having problems compiling ntop-3.0 on Sparc Sun
> Solaris 2.7
> > (e250 with gcc 2.95.2 / gnu binutils 2.14 / gnu make 3.78.1)
> and I can't for
> > the life of me get it working, plus I'm no developer so my
> knowledge of C is
> > poor so sorry about that...
> >
> > libpcap-0.8.1 which other apps seem to have been happy with
> (done with the
> > basic ./configure, make, etc.). but my config seems to fail on the
> > following:
> >
> > Critical library/include tests...
> >
> > checking for pcap...
> > checking pcap.h usability... yes
> > checking pcap.h presence... yes
> > checking for pcap.h... yes
> > checking net/bpf.h usability... no
> > checking net/bpf.h presence... no
> > checking for net/bpf.h... no
> > checking pcap-bpf.h usability... yes
> > checking pcap-bpf.h presence... yes
> > checking for pcap-bpf.h... yes
> > checking for pcap_open_live in -lpcap... no
> > checking for pcap_open_dead in -lpcap... no
> > checking for pcap_lib_version in -lpcap... no
> > checking for pcap_setnonblock in -lpcap... no
> >
> > *******************************************************************
> > *
> > * ERROR: pcap header, bpf or library routines are missing
> > *           (yes means it was found, no means it was not found)
> > *
> > *              pcap.h...yes
> > *              net/bpf.h...no
> > *              pcap-bpf.h...yes
> > *              pcap_open_live() in -lpcap...no
> > *
> > *  (One of the bpf files is required, but either will do)
> > *
> > *>>> No way to proceed.
> > *
> > *???     1. Install libpcap
> > *???    and Rerun ./configure
> > *???  or 2. Use the --with-pcap-root= option
> > *
> > *******************************************************************
>
>
> This sounds like some missing compile flags. We never built a SOLARIS7
> configureextra file so you should probably either
>
> 1) copy the file ./configureextra/SOLARIS8 to SOLARIS7 (and check with
> Burton about the file naming it something with version but I forget.
>
> 2) Just pull the flags out of the SOLARIS8 file and use them when you
> invoke ./configure
>
>
>
> --
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