Re: [Bulk] Re: [Patch] Upgrade libpcap to 1.5.3

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

On 02/27/2014 02:55 PM, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> why does Nmap and chums needs it's own "port" of libpcap? Any insiders 
> who can answer that? The offical
> libpcap works fine here anyway. 
Gisle,

I think there is a desire for Nmap to build cleanly "out of the box" 
with as few external dependencies as possible, hence the inclusion of 
libpcre, libpcap, and liblua. I haven't looked at the patches, but I 
would suspect some of them were to work around known bugs in the version 
that was included. Generally, these bugs should be forwarded to 
upstream, though.

The exception to the "self-contained" notion is OpenSSL. Nmap should 
build cleanly without it, but it makes version detection nearly useless 
nowadays.

Dan
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