Re: configure script problem while working on extention

[Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>
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> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:59:30 -0700
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> On Aug 15, 2022, at 12:50 AM, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org> wrote:
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> > On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 11:49:57 -0700
> > Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>
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> > > Or is this a ZIP archive provided by somebody other than tcpdump.org?
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> > github.com -> code -> download ZIP. I vaguely remember there was a
> > "download tar.gz" there as well, but not anymore.  Anyway, git clone is
> > better order of magnitudes, in that it allows to tell which commit the
> > working copy is at.
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> So they're building from the current main branch, rather than from a release tarball (or from the source used to build 
> the versions of libpcap and tcpdump in the OS they're using)?
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> If so, then, yes, they should use git clone, not only for the reason you mention, but because it's not a snapshot, it's 
> a repository, so it can be updated to the current state of the main branch.
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