On Thu, March 6, 2008 12:56 pm, Randal T. Rioux wrote: > I've run into a strange situation. Perhaps someone can help. > > nessus-libraries-2.2.10 configures and compiles without any issues. > openvas-libraries-1.0.0 on the other hand coughs the following error > during ./configure: > > checking for pcap_restart in -lpcap... no > configure: error: you need to install pcap library with development files > > I've thrown every flag I can think of to tell it where the libpcap > libraries are and nothing seems to matter. I've even tried both the > SunFreeware libpcap package and a source installation (using GNU gcc, > libpcap-0.9.8). Any ideas?
Okay I've been messing with some files trying to figure out what is going on. For comparison, I checked the libpcap files shipped with nessus-libraries-2.2.10 and noticed it is version 0.4. If I'm correct, this version shipped in 1945 or something. Anyway, the configure script for openvas-libs is... busy. The pcap part is hard to follow. For fun, you should run a diff on the two. :-) How was this file created? One last thing. There are still many Nessus references in lots of files. Some I'm sure can even be re-written and improved upon. Would there be any barriers to me getting SVN access and added to the developer list? I'm motivated and want to start pushing some things out. Of course, no functionality changes without group approval, but small things would be quick to fix. Thanks! Randy _______________________________________________ Openvas-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-devel
