Bart Smaalders wrote: > James Carlson wrote: > ... > >>> There are two private libraries delivered into /usr/lib. >> >> >> I don't see libpcap. Where does that come from? >> > > I'm statically linking that into wireshark; it doesn't really want > (eg easily) build a dynamic version OOB. Until such time as we have > additional clients, static linking saves effort.
While at first this seems worthwhile, this could be a gotcha. By delivering wireshark with its own libpcap, we're potentially introducing a bundle that will not work to the full extent that it should - see this thread on clearview-discuss: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=41287&tstart=15 While I don't want to suggest that this case should fix libpcap, it is perhaps worth thinking about whether or not there is benefit from delivering it as a .so instead of being staticly linked in. Darren
