Darren Reed wrote: > 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 >
I'm willing to entertain this; the change isn't difficult. At the time (mid summer), no other likely users of libpcap requested otherwise. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
