Re: Libpcap library/headers not found and bigendian ?

[Erek Adams <erek () theadamsfamily net>]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Daniel Curry wrote:

>   I am receiving these errors when I do a configure?
> I have installed libpcap
>  336 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other     161884 Apr  8 10:34
> /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a
>
>
> checking for strlcat... yes
> checking for strerror... yes
> checking for floor in -lm... yes
> checking for pcap_datalink in -lpcap... no
>
>    ERROR!  Libpcap library/headers not found, go get it from
>    ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/libpcap.tar.Z
>    or use the --with-libpcap-* options, if you have it installed
>    in unusual place

It's looking for pcap.h at that point, not libpcacp.a.

>   This is the second error.
>
> checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
> grep: illegal option -- q
> Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

The -q option isn't in your 'grep' program.  You can manually edit that out of
the ./configure script or you can add gnu-grep to your system.

But...  IIRC, this was fixed in the 1.8.6 release.  Which version are you
running?

Cheers!

-----
Erek Adams
Nifty-Type-Guy
TheAdamsFamily.Net


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