Re: TCPDUMP 4.0.1rc1 and LIBPCAP 1.0.1rc1 available for testing

["Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni () cacetech com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Harris" <guy () alum mit edu>
To: <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] TCPDUMP 4.0.1rc1 and LIBPCAP 1.0.1rc1 
available for testing


> On Dec 21, 2008, at 1:25 AM, Gianluca Varenni wrote:
>
> > When I run it, I get
> >
> > ./a.out: error while loading shared libraries: libpcap.so.1: cannot  open 
> > shared  object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > I'm not an expert about linux shared objects, maybe I'm doing  something 
> > wrong.
>
> I'm not, either, but, given that 1.0[.x] has a different major version 
> number from 0.9.x (and 0.8.x and 0.7.x and so on), you might have to  run 
> ldconfig to add the new shared library to the shared library cache  list 
> (some UN*X run-time linkers have such a cache list, others don't).

That was the problem, after calling ldconfig everything worked ok.

Thanks!
GV

> > Is it my fault or something within the installation of the libpcap 
> > shared object?
>
> I'm not sure whether the convention is that a library's Makefile (or 
> libtool, if the library uses libtool - we don't) should, on platforms 
> that have ldconfig, run ldconfig after installing the library, so I  don't 
> know whether we should be doing that or not.
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