Re: libpcap-1.0.0 on AIX 6.1

["Randal T. Rioux" <randy () procyonlabs com>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2009, at 7:57 PM, Randal T. Rioux wrote:
>
> > I get the following error when running ./configure on an IBM pSeries 
> > 7029-6C3 (1.2Ghz POWER4):
> >
> > # ./configure
> > checking <blah blah blah>...
> > ./configure[6236]: syntax error at line 6659 : `newline or ;' unexpected
> > #
> >
> > Does anybody have any suggestions?
>
> Try the top-of-tree Git version instead; the 1.0.0 version was doing 
> AC_CHECK_HEADERS(), with no header file names, for some reason, and that 
> generated a loop that does
>
>     for i in
>     do
>         ..
>     done
>
> Some Bourne-compatible shells handle an empty list in a for statement, 
> but that's a non-standard feature, and some Bourne-compatible shells - 
> including, apparently, the one in AIX 6.1 - don't support that.

Yeah, that was it. The current git clone worked fine.

For the record, ksh and bash gave the same error.

Any ETA on a new release?

Thanks for your help!

Randy

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