Re: 5.30BETA1 cross-compile regression

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 07:56:47PM +0100, Nuno Gonçalves wrote:
> Looks like 5.30BETA1 is no longer able to cross-compile nicely like
> previous versions:
>
> 5.30BETA1
>
> checking for library containing setsockopt... none required
> checking for library containing gethostbyname... none required
> checking pcap.h usability... yes
> checking pcap.h presence... yes
> checking for pcap.h... yes
> checking for pcap_datalink in -lpcap... yes
> checking if libpcap version is recent enough... configure: error:
> cannot run test program while cross compiling
> See `config.log' for more details.
> configure: error: ./configure failed for nping
>
>
> 5.21
>
> checking for library containing setsockopt... none required
> checking for library containing gethostbyname... none required
> checking for library containing dlopen... -ldl
> checking pcap.h usability... yes
> checking pcap.h presence... yes
> checking for pcap.h... yes
> checking for pcap_datalink in -lpcap... yes
> checking if libpcap version is recent enough... cross-compiling -- assuming yes
> configure: creating ./config.status

I think this will work in version 5.35DC1. Please give that a try. The
issue here was the addition of Nping. It implemented its own libpcap
check that didn't support cross-compiling. Now that code is shared
between Nmap and Nping.

David Fifield
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