On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > On Nov 11, 2017, at 11:06 AM, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Sure. The immediate problem though is that acinclude.m4 assumes that >> checking for pcap_open is sufficient and required to enable >> HAVE_PCAP_REMOTE. > > If you don't have pcap_open(), you probably don't have remote support, which > is why it's required. > > I suppose it isn't "sufficient" in the sense that one could, in principle, > build a version of libpcap that has pcap_open() but that only supports local > capture, but that's rather unlikely. > >> Having hacked my way around that, it is clear from the resulting build >> failures that a more recent version of libpcap is required :-( > > That's the universe's way of telling you that perhaps, sometimes, you should > trust that autotools knows what it's doing, and not try to hack around it. :-)
Well, I am trying to figure out the simplest required things to get this working on Linux ... Now that I have the latest version of libpcap from the repo built and installed, I seem to have library issues, but I can figure those out ... -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操) ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
