Re: [clearview-discuss] libdlpi with libpcap

[sagun shakya <Sagun.Shakya () Sun COM>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008, at 6:14 PM, sagun shakya wrote:
>
>   
> > Updated webrev can be found at:
> >
> > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~sagun/libpcap-review2/
> >     
>
> It says, in a comment you added to configure.in:
>
>         + # Due to a gcc bug (6619485), the default search path for 32-bit
>         + # libraries does not include /lib, we add it explicitly here.
>         + # Also, due to the bug above applications that link to libpcap with
>         + # libdlpi will have to add "-L/lib" option to "configure".
>
> (Is 6619485 a GCC Bugzilla bug number?  I don't see it on http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla.)
>
>   
No, this is a Bug in Solaris for the gcc version that is available.

% /usr/sfw/bin/gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-20050802)

. This bug does not exist in the latest version of GCC. 
> If applications have to add that flag, tcpdump's configure script  
> should probably check to see whether it needs to link with -L/lib in  
> order to link with libpcap; tcpdump is not necessarily linked with ../ 
> libpcap-XXX/libpcap.a - somebody might be building tcpdump on a system  
> that comes with libpcap, and be linking with the system libpcap.   
> Putting that in there also provides a template that other applications  
> can use in their configure scripts, if they're using autoconf.
>
>   
I agree, I'll add this to the configure script of tcpdump. This would 
also be applicable for wireshark then?

Thanks,
-sagun
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