Re: installation of shared libraries for libpcap

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

Adamiec, Larry wrote:

> I am trying to install libpcap-0.9.8 on a Sun SPARC Solaris 9 server.  I
> need to install it with shared libraries.

That's not currently supported by our build procedure.  The person who 
contributed that support just contributed Linux support (which might 
work on other platforms using the GNU linker) and Mac OS X support.

A quick check seems to suggest that, although libtool is GPLed, the 
ltmain.sh that it generates can be distributed with a libtoolized 
non-GPL library (libpcap is BSD-licensed) that uses autoconf; the 
comment at the beginning of ltmain.sh says:

   #
   # As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
   # distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
   # configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
   # the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.

so we could switch to using libtool, letting us adapt to the twisty 
little maze of shared library building mechanisms, all different, 
offered to us by the twisty little maze of UN*Xes, all different, out there.

That doesn't help you in the short term, however.  You'll have to hack 
the Makefile.in file to use the appropriate commands to build a shared 
library - and hack the configure.in file to use the appropriate "compile 
position-independent code" flag on Solaris, and then re-generate the 
configure script, reconfigure, and build.

> All the documentation says
> I am configuring things correctly,

Which documentation talks about building shared libraries?
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