Find and build libpcap-0.8.3.tar.gz.  I got my from
http://www.tcpdump.org/.

As a root eq. user;

wget http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-0.8.3.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libpcap-0.8.3.tar.gz
cd libpcap-0.8.3
./configure  (note the leading '.')
[look for a bad errors.  If none, go to next step]
make
make install


Now go back to ntop and do a;

make distclean
 then
./configure


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I'm trying to compile Ntop 3.1 but am having a problem with the libpcap
library. I'm surprised since ntop has generally been very easy to build for
most of the revisions over the past 3 years. At least for me.

My build platform is a YellowDog Linux 3.0 system running on a G4 powermac.
When I run configure, I get a complaint like this:

* 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...yes
*              pcap-bpf.h...no
*              pcap_open_live() in -lpcap...yes
*              pcap_findalldevs() in -lpcap...no
*
*  (One of the bpf files is required, but either will do)

The version of libpcap included with YDL 3.0 is an older version (0.6). I
found an RPM for my system that installs libcap version 0.8.3. After
installing that, I got this configure output:

* 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
*              pcap_findalldevs() in -lpcap...no
*
*  (One of the bpf files is required, but either will do)

which is actually worse, since it doesn't even find the open_live()
function.

So what am I missing? Does Ntop 3.1 require a development copy of libpcap?




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