Re: libpcap detection and linking in tcpdump

[Michael Richardson via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>
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> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 17:54:53 -0500
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> Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org> wrote:
>     > (The existence of libtool is an indication that shared libraries have
>     > gotten messy on UN*X.)
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>     > Perhaps for this particular case the right thing to do is to set
>     > LD_LIBRARY_PATH when running the temporarily-installed tcpdump.
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> Effectively, this is what libtool tries to do.
> I would rather just be explicit about it somehow.
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> Maybe that goes into how we use "make check", but I'm not sure where else it matters.
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