Re: tcpdump 4.0.0rc2 and libpcap 1.0.0rc2 now available

[Ken Bantoft <ken () netfunctional ca>]

On 16-Oct-08, at 4:06 AM, Guy Harris wrote:

> Note to Linux distributions and *BSD systems that include libpcap:
>
> 	There's now a rule to make a shared library, which should work on  
> Linux and *BSD (and OS X).
>
> 	It sets the soname of the library to "libpcap.so.1"; this is what  
> it should be, *NOT* libpcap.so.1.0 or libpcap.so.1.0.0 or something  
> such as that.
>
> 	We've been maintaining binary compatibility between libpcap  
> releases for quite a while; there's no reason to tie a binary linked  
> with libpcap to a particular release of libpcap.
>
> (I have some other changes to attempt to make it work on Solaris and  
> HP-UX, but haven't tested them yet, so I'm not planning on checking  
> them in for libpcap 1.0.0.)
>
> Should this go into a README of some sort?  (I don't want to have to  
> explain sonames to people trying to build Wireshark on one version  
> of a Linux distribution and run it on another version with a later  
> libpcap in it any more.)

Yes, it should - I'll put it in for rc3, along with anything else.  I  
want 4.0.0/1.0.0 released by Halloween... preferably before!

Ken



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