Re: make releasetar on libpcap

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

On Mar 5, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:

> Does anyone see a problem if I move bpf_filter.c from CSRC 
> to GENSRC in the libpcap Makefile?

The Makefile has a rule to "generate" it, so I'd see that as OK.  (It also means that "make clean" would remove the 
symlink, which is arguably the right thing for it to do.)

> The other way is to make releasetar: depend upon bpf_filter.c,
> so that the symlink is shipped, but I think we shouldn't ship the
> symlink.

Or we could just get rid of the bpf/net directory entirely, and move bpf_filter.c to the top-level directory; we 
already have bpf_dump.c and bpf_image.c there.  I assume part of the rationale there was to put the stuff that could go 
into an OS kernel into a subdirectory, but we've already moved most of the files out of there, and the developers of 
the OSes that don't already have a BPF interpreter can probably figure out what pieces they need and put them into the 
source tree appropriately.
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