Re: DAQ ./configure problem with libpcap>1.0.0

["Bryan A. Jones" <bjones () ece msstate edu>]

Jack and Jesse,

Thanks for the help! An invocation of ldconfig fixed the problem. I've
attached my documentation / script which compiles then installs a
bare-bones Snort setup on a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Bryan

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Jesse Bowling <jessebowling () gmail com>wrote:

> On RHEL using PF_RING I've had to specify the location to
> configure...Perhaps this would get you moving:
>
> LIBS="-lpcap" LDFLAGS="-lpcap" ./configure
> --with-libpcap-libraries=/usr/local/lib
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jesse
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Jack Pepper <pepperjack () autoshun org>wrote:
>
> > I had a similar problem.  It was a pkgtool problem.  I uninstalled
> > libpcap and libpcap-devel, then recompiled libpcap from source and it all
> > worked out nicely.
> >
> > If you;ve already done that, make sure that you don't have multiple
> > libpcap libraries installed.  make sure /usr/local/lib is being picked up
> > in ldconf.
> >
> > tc
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Bryan A. Jones <bjones () ece msstate edu>wrote:
> >
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I noticed that when configuring DAQ v0.6.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, it can't
> > > find my compiled libpcap library (I tried 1.1.1 and 1.3.0), which does
> > > indeed exist at /usr/local/lib. Any ideas? Attached is config.log. The
> > > error message:
> > >
> > > checking for pcap_lib_version... checking for pcap_lib_version in
> > > -lpcap... (cached) no
> > >
> > >     ERROR!  Libpcap library version >= 1.0.0 not found.
> > >     Get it from http://www.tcpdump.org
> > >
> > >
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