Re: D_IN vs PCAP_D_IN

["Aaron Turner" <synfinatic () gmail com>]

On 2/27/06, dean gaudet <dean-list-tcpdump-workers () arctic org> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Aaron Turner wrote:
>
> > Well looks like sometime in libpcap 0.9.x, pcap.h changed the enum for
> > direction_t to pcap_direction_t and the enumerated types within.
> > While I can understand the reason of the change, it's driving me nuts
> > since there doesn't seem to be an easy way to handle this gracefully.
>
> heh that's sort of my fault 'cause i pointed it out right after the first
> release with those "unprotected" symbols... but istr there was another
> release almost immediately to fix build problems on NT?  can't you just
> require the most recent?

Not using NT, this is *nix.  Requiring the most recent while ideal,
just isn't realistic right now.

> > Since I don't use autoconf for this project, anyone have a way of
> > detecting what version of pcap.h is there?  Simple things like:
> >
> > #ifndef D_IN
> > #define D_IN PCAP_D_IN
> > #endif
>
> you could #define D_IN PCAP_D_IN and so forth before #including the
> tcpdump headers... then you can always use PCAP_D_IN.

Unless I'm missing something obvious, that wouldn't work since
PCAP_D_IN wouldn't be defined before or after #include <pcap.h> for
older versions of libpcap.


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Aaron Turner
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