Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] autoconf patches to 0.8.16

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 00:03:32 -0800
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:57:22AM -0600, ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> BTW, should I AC_MSG_ERROR for --with-pcap=no in the top-level
> ./configure?

If by that you mean "should I cause the configure script to fail with an
error message if the user specified '--with-pcap=no'", the answer is
"no".  As the autoconf documentation says:

	`--without-PACKAGE' is equivalent to `--with-PACKAGE=no'.

and that would mean there'd be no way to force Ethereal *not* to be
built with libpcap or libz.