Re: Minor change to compile in FreeBSD 4.7

[Hannes Gredler <hannes () juniper net>]

cody,

would you mind pulling a more recent version of libpcap ?
0.4 is fairly outdated;

/hannes

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:49:53PM -0800, Cody Ritts wrote:
| Hello, this is the very first time I have ever fixed anything, so please
| forgive me if I am wrong or way out of line.  I also apologize because I
| don't know exactly what to tell you, so this is what I think is pertinent.
| And if time permits, please feel free to criticize me so that I may learn.
| 
| Thank you,
| 
| Cody Ritts
| 
| 
| #/usr/local/src/libpcap-0.4> uname -a
| FreeBSD brokersalliance.com 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0:
| 
| #/usr/local/src/libpcap-0.4> ./configure
| creating cache ./config.cache
| checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsd4.7
| checking target system type... i386-unknown-freebsd4.7
| checking build system type... i386-unknown-freebsd4.7
| checking for gcc... gcc
| checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
| checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
| checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
| checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
| checking gcc version... 2
| checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
| checking for malloc.h... no
| checking for sys/ioccom.h... yes
| checking for sys/sockio.h... yes
| checking for ANSI ioctl definitions... yes
| checking for ether_hostton... yes
| checking for strerror... yes
| checking packet capture type... bpf
| checking for flex... flex
| checking for flex 2.4 or higher... yes
| checking for bison... bison
| checking for ranlib... ranlib
| checking if sockaddr struct has sa_len member... yes
| checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
| updating cache ./config.cache
| creating ./config.status
| creating Makefile
| #/usr/local/src/libpcap-0.4> make
| gcc -O2 -I. -DHAVE_SYS_IOCCOM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SOCKIO_H=1
| -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE
| gcc -O2 -I. -DHAVE_SYS_IOCCOM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SOCKIO_H=1
| -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE
| gcc -O2 -I. -DHAVE_SYS_IOCCOM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SOCKIO_H=1
| -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE
| gcc -O2 -I. -DHAVE_SYS_IOCCOM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SOCKIO_H=1
| -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE
| gcc -O2 -I. -DHAVE_SYS_IOCCOM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SOCKIO_H=1
| -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE
| gcc -O2 -I. -DHAVE_SYS_IOCCOM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SOCKIO_H=1
| -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE
| ./nametoaddr.c:334: conflicting types for `ether_hostton'
| /usr/include/net/ethernet.h:126: previous declaration of `ether_hostton'
| *** Error code 1
| 
| Stop in /usr/local/src/libpcap-0.4.
| 
| 
| #/usr/local/src/libpcap-0.4> wc -l /usr/include/net/ethernet.h
|      134 /usr/include/net/ethernet.h
| #/usr/local/src/libpcap-0.4> tail -14 /usr/include/net/ethernet.h
| /*
|  * Ethernet address conversion/parsing routines.
|  */
| __BEGIN_DECLS
| struct  ether_addr *ether_aton __P((const char *));
| int     ether_hostton __P((const char *, struct ether_addr *));
| int     ether_line __P((const char *, struct ether_addr *, char *));
| char    *ether_ntoa __P((const struct ether_addr *));
| int     ether_ntohost __P((char *, const struct ether_addr *));
| __END_DECLS
| 
| #endif /* !_KERNEL */
| 
| #endif /* !_NET_ETHERNET_H_ */
| #/usr/local/src/libpcap-0.4>
| 
| 
| 
| To fix the problem, I edited ./nametoaddr.c and commented out lines 333-335
|  
|    So that:
| 
| #/usr/local/src/libpcap-0.4> head -335 ./nametoaddr.c | tail -3
| /*#ifndef sgi
| extern int ether_hostton(char *, struct ether_addr *);
| #endif*/
| #/usr/local/src/libpcap-0.4>
| 
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