Re: Can't build Nmap --with-libpcap=path/to/libpcap

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

On 12/11/2013 12:46 PM, olli hauer wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> I've just done a simple ./configure with libpcap-1.5.2 and in the generated Makefile the following line can be found.
>
> ...
> # Pathname of directory to install the include files
> includedir = ${prefix}/include
> ...
> install: install-shared install-archive pcap-config
>          [ -d $(DESTDIR)$(libdir) ] || \
>              (mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(libdir); chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(libdir))
>          [ -d $(DESTDIR)$(includedir) ] || \
>              (mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(includedir); chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(includedir))
>          [ -d $(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/pcap ] || \
>              (mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/pcap; chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/pcap)
>
> Can you check your parameters for libpcap, specially the generated Makefile.
olli,

Thanks for clearing this up for me. I had not considered the "make 
install" step, and that the intent of the --with-libcap=/path 
configuration was for the case where libpcap's DESTDIR was not one of 
the system's search paths.

Now I can continue testing!

Dan
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