Re: tcpdump 4.0.0rc2 and libpcap 1.0.0rc2 now available

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

On Oct 15, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Ken Bantoft wrote:

> I uploaded Release Candidate 2 to http://www.tcpdump.org/beta this  
> evening - please give it a test and make sure it works as you  
> expect.  I'm want to ship it by the end of the month (this time, I  
> promise!), as it's been stable for quite some time now, and it's  
> long overdue.

Note to Linux distributions and *BSD systems that include libpcap:

	There's now a rule to make a shared library, which should work on  
Linux and *BSD (and OS X).

	It sets the soname of the library to "libpcap.so.1"; this is what it  
should be, *NOT* libpcap.so.1.0 or libpcap.so.1.0.0 or something such  
as that.

	We've been maintaining binary compatibility between libpcap releases  
for quite a while; there's no reason to tie a binary linked with  
libpcap to a particular release of libpcap.

(I have some other changes to attempt to make it work on Solaris and  
HP-UX, but haven't tested them yet, so I'm not planning on checking  
them in for libpcap 1.0.0.)

Should this go into a README of some sort?  (I don't want to have to  
explain sonames to people trying to build Wireshark on one version of  
a Linux distribution and run it on another version with a later  
libpcap in it any more.)
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