Re: Building Wireshark on SuSE 11.4 fails, configure does not find pcap functions.

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl>]

> On 13 Oct 2017, at 09:26, Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wireshark-dev [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org <mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org>] 
> On Behalf Of Guy Harris
> Sent: den 12 oktober 2017 19:22
> To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev () wireshark org <mailto:wireshark-dev () wireshark org>>
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Building Wireshark on SuSE 11.4 fails, configure does not find pcap functions.
>
> On Oct 12, 2017, at 4:02 AM, João Valverde <joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt> wrote:
>
> > On 12-10-2017 11:25, Anders Broman wrote:
> > > > Is this a built from a git checkout or from a release tarball?  If it's from a git checkout, what happens if you 
> > > > do a "make maintainer-clean", a "./autogen.sh", and then a >"./configure"?
> > > It's from an svn clone of the old svn repo kept up to date with the 
> > > latest git version. I did check a fresh svn checkout. I could try to build the standard Wireshark From trunk.
> >
> > Probably related to https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/23329/.
> >
> > The problem still needs to be investigated, the autoconf macro is complex and impossible to test for all platforms 
> > and libpcap versions.
>
> The comment in your change says
>
>           # We have pcap-config; we assume that means we have libpcap
>           # installed and that pcap-config will tell us whatever
>           # libraries libpcap needs.
>
> As the creator of pcap-config, I can state unequivocally that if that assumption is incorrect, that would indicate 
> that the pcap-config on the machine in question is buggy. Whether the bug is the fault of tcpdump.org or of the 
> platform on the machine is another matter.
>
> Anders, what does running
>
>       pcap-config --libs
>
> and
>
>       pcap-config --libs --static
>
> on the SuSE and Ubuntu machines print?
>
> On SuSE:
> > pcap-config --libs
> If 'pcap-config' is not a typo you can run the following command to lookup the package that contains the binary:
>    command-not-found pcap-config
>
>
> On Ubuntu 14.04
> $ pcap-config --libs
> -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu  -lpcap
>
> $ pcap-config --libs --static
> -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lpcap
>
>
> Regards
> Anders


Hi,

According to https://opensuse.pkgs.org/42.3/opensuse-network-utilities/libpcap-devel-1.8.1-70.1.x86_64.rpm.html

it should be there?

Thanks,
Jaap


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