Re: Message Digest V1 #577

[Phil Wood <cpw () lanl gov>]

On linux, the shared libraries end up in a hidden directory named .libs

On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 05:20 -0400,
tcpdump-workers-owner () lists tcpdump org wrote:
> Message Digest 
> Volume 1 : Issue 577 : "text" Format
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> Messages in this Issue:
>   200805/1  : installation of shared libraries for libpcap
>     "Adamiec, Larry" <Ladamiec () kentlaw edu>
>   200805/2  : Re: installation of shared libraries for libpcap
>     Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
>   200805/3  : Re: installation of shared libraries for libpcap
>     "Adamiec, Larry" <Ladamiec () kentlaw edu>
>   200805/4  : Re: installation of shared libraries for libpcap
>     Eloy Paris <peloy () chapus net>
>   200805/5  : Califica mi foto en "SEXY o NO?"
>     drosalri () gmail com
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 10:05:45 -0500
> From: "Adamiec, Larry" <Ladamiec () kentlaw edu>
> To: <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>
> Subject: installation of shared libraries for libpcap
> Message-ID: <51B0FD54A7A225489454D4BB1EE49D4E06AD40F5 () MAIL3 kentlaw edu>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install libpcap-0.9.8 on a Sun SPARC Solaris 9 server.  I
> need to install it with shared libraries.
>
> I use the following sequence of commands.
>
> ./configure --enable-shared
> make
> make install
>
> However, the only library I can find is /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a.  I
> need the /usr/local/lib/libpcap.so library.  All the documentation says
> I am configuring things correctly, but, I must be doing something wrong
> because it is not working.
>
> I have also tried the following sequence of commands without success.
>
> ./configure
> make install-shared
>
> ./configure --enable-shared
> make install-shared
>
> ./configure --enable-shared
> make
> make install-shared
>
> I am using the GNU version of make, version 3.81.
>
> Any and all help will be appreciated.
>
> Larry Adamiec
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 10:42:14 -0700
> From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
> To: tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org
> Subject: Re: installation of shared libraries for libpcap
> Message-ID: <4821E9F6.105 () 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?
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 14:14:06 -0500
> From: "Adamiec, Larry" <Ladamiec () kentlaw edu>
> To: <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>
> Subject: Re: installation of shared libraries for libpcap
> Message-ID: <51B0FD54A7A225489454D4BB1EE49D4E06AD4104 () MAIL3 kentlaw edu>
>
> The docs I read was part of the ntop distribution.
>
> I did get a shared library created without editing the makefiles. I used the following sequence of commands:
>
> ./configure
> make shared
> make install-shared
>
> Larry
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tcpdump-workers-owner () lists tcpdump org [mailto:tcpdump-workers-owner () lists tcpdump org] On Behalf Of Guy 
> Harris
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:42
> To: tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org
> Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] installation of shared libraries for libpcap
>
>
> 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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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 15:56:04 -0400
> From: Eloy Paris <peloy () chapus net>
> To: tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org
> Subject: Re: installation of shared libraries for libpcap
> Message-ID: <20080508195604.GB12606 () chapus net>
>
> Hi Larry,
>
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:05:45AM -0500, 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.
> >
> > I use the following sequence of commands.
> >
> > ./configure --enable-shared
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > However, the only library I can find is /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a.  I
> > need the /usr/local/lib/libpcap.so library.  All the documentation says
> > I am configuring things correctly, but, I must be doing something wrong
> > because it is not working.
> >
> > I have also tried the following sequence of commands without success.
> >
> > ./configure
> > make install-shared
> >
> > ./configure --enable-shared
> > make install-shared
> >
> > ./configure --enable-shared
> > make
> > make install-shared
> >
> > I am using the GNU version of make, version 3.81.
> >
> > Any and all help will be appreciated.
>
> I had to apply the following patch to libpcap to be able to get a
> working shared libpcap library on Solaris (don't remember the version of
> Solaris this was for, though):
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --- x/libpcap-0.9.5/Makefile.in Sun Dec 14 20:35:03 2003
> +++ libpcap-0.9.5/Makefile.in   Tue Feb 13 12:32:12 2007
> @@ -112,7 +112,8 @@
>  #
>  libpcap.so: $(OBJ)
>         @rm -f $@
> -       ld -shared -o $@.`cat VERSION` $(OBJ)
> +       ld -L `pwd` -G -o $@.shared -lsocket -lnsl -lresolv -lc -z allextract -lpcap -zdefaultextract
> +       mv $@.shared $@
>
>  # the following rule succeeds, but the result is untested.
>  libpcap.dylib: $(OBJ)
> @@ -189,7 +190,7 @@
>
>  install-shared: install-shared-$(DYEXT)
>  install-shared-so: libpcap.so
> -       $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) libpcap.so.`cat VERSION` $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libpcap.so.`cat VERSION`
> +       $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) libpcap.so $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libpcap.so
>  install-shared-dylib: libpcap.dylib
>         $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) libpcap.`cat VERSION`.dylib $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libpcap.`cat VERSION`.dylib
>         VER=`cat VERSION`; cd $(DESTDIR)$(libdir) && ln -sf libpcap.$$VER.dylib libpcap.0.dylib;  ln -sf 
> libpcap.0.dylib libpcap.dylib
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It's been a while since I used this but I remember that it worked back
> then. It's kind of hackish (the real solution would be to move to
> libtool, as Guy says) and no promises that it'll work but should give
> you a starting point to play with.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eloy Paris.-
>
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>
> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 05:10:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: drosalri () gmail com
> To: tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org
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C. Philip Wood, Int. D.                                                                     
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