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

[Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com>]

From: Wireshark-dev [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Jaap Keuter
Sent: den 13 oktober 2017 13:15
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Building Wireshark on SuSE 11.4 fails, configure does not find pcap functions.


On 13 Oct 2017, at 09:26, Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com<mailto:anders.broman () ericsson com>> wrote:
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From: Wireshark-dev [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
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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<mailto: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<http://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

Hi,
It’s SuSE 11.3 not OpenSuse and using zypper I have the latest available libpcap libraries for this version installed.

sudo zypper se libpcap
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name           | Summary                        | Type
--+----------------+--------------------------------+-----------
  | libpcap        | A Library for Network Sniffers | srcpackage
i | libpcap-devel  | A Library for Network Sniffers | package
i | libpcap0       | A Library for Network Sniffers | package
  | libpcap0-32bit | A Library for Network Sniffers | package

Information for package libpcap0:

Repository: SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-11-SP4 11.4.4-1.109
Name: libpcap0
Version: 0.9.8-50.10.1
:
Name: libpcap-devel
Version: 0.9.8-50.10.1

Regards
Anders

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