Re: [tcpdump-workers] Update configure for libpcap

2018-07-12 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi, Am 12.07.2018 um 12:07 schrieb Jan Stary : > On Jul 11 10:27:50, ghar...@sonic.net wrote: >> I would *personally* prefer that we not have generated configure files in >> Git and require that autoconf be run (or, if it needs to be run with >> particular arguments, supply an autopen.sh file an

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Update configure for libpcap

2018-07-12 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 11 10:27:50, ghar...@sonic.net wrote: > On Jul 11, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Petr Vorel wrote: > > Libpcap's configure script is outdated. > > Although I'd prefer remove configure from git +1 > We have CMake support, so, as far as I'm concerned, getting autotools to work > on Windows is Somebody

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Update configure for libpcap

2018-07-11 Thread Ali Abdulkadir
rsday, July 12, 2018 12:23 AM To: Ali Abdulkadir Cc: Petr Vorel; tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] Update configure for libpcap On Jul 11, 2018, at 1:32 PM, Ali Abdulkadir wrote: > Nope. Although it wouldn't be super helpful if they were to remove/update the

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Update configure for libpcap

2018-07-11 Thread Guy Harris
On Jul 11, 2018, at 1:32 PM, Ali Abdulkadir wrote: > Nope. Although it wouldn't be super helpful if they were to remove/update the > ANSI compiler test. That would make libpcap at least *compile* on windows > with the autotools. I think tcpdump's configure script removed that test at > some po

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Update configure for libpcap

2018-07-11 Thread Ali Abdulkadir
> On Jul 11, 2018, at 2:22 PM, Petr Vorel wrote: > > Hi, > > Libpcap's configure script is outdated. > Although I'd prefer remove configure from git and ask user to run autoconf > manually (+ update travis and coverity to run it, of course), That's the first item on their TODO > but maybe yo

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Update configure for libpcap

2018-07-11 Thread Guy Harris
On Jul 11, 2018, at 4:57 AM, Petr Vorel wrote: > BTW I still wonder for the reason why to version configure. To quote a comment that used to be in configure.ac: # XXX - the version is a required argument to AC_INIT and, to quote the # autoconf documentation, "The arguments of AC

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Update configure for libpcap

2018-07-11 Thread Guy Harris
On Jul 11, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Petr Vorel wrote: > Libpcap's configure script is outdated. > Although I'd prefer remove configure from git and ask user to run autoconf > manually (+ update travis and coverity to run it, of course), but maybe you > have > some reason for it (problematic autotools i

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Update configure for libpcap

2018-07-11 Thread Petr Vorel
Hi, > Libpcap's configure script is outdated. > Although I'd prefer remove configure from git and ask user to run autoconf > manually (+ update travis and coverity to run it, of course), but maybe you > have > some reason for it (problematic autotools instalation on windows?), so I just > update