Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] --with-libpcap option to configure, or --with-include fixed

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:46:05 -0700 (PDT)
> we need to either fix --with-include

Fix it to do what?  "configure" scripts support "--with-XXX" for
arbitrary values of XXX; however, it appears that you have to do
additional work to make it actually do something.  What should that flag
be made to do?

> or add a --with-libpcap option to ethereal.

I.e., the automatic check for "libpcap" fails under some circumstances? 
What circumstances are those?