Re: pcap_findalldevs doesn't return bluetooth interfaces

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

Barry Reinhold wrote:

> I just want to confirm that installing the bluez-libs-devel-3.7-1.i386 rpm
> (built on Fedora 6) worked on CentOS 5 and resolved the problem.
>
> I should have caught the clue in config.log - that was an explicit message
> that had the needed information, however, I appreciate the help.

That's the problem with warnings, rather than errors, from configure 
scripts - the scripts spew out so much output that we don't tend to read 
the output.

The problem with errors, however, is that you then have to explicitly 
say "no, I don't want that feature" with a "--without" or "--disable" 
configure option - and, in this case, it might be that most people don't 
care about capturing on Bluetooth, so that'd be really inconvenient.

The longer-term fix might be that various distributions will pick up 
libpcap 1.0 when it's released, and will either configure it with 
Bluetooth capture support in the release that picks it up or in a 
subsequent release when people file bugs about it.
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