On Nov 19, 2003, at 1:33 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
Ok, so I finally broke down and bought a PowerBook.
And it came with Jaguar, not Panther? (Or did you buy it a while ago?)
I'm trying to get Ethereal to compile, but am having a problem with the
dependencies. I have the Apple Developers SDK installed already, so
the
compiler looks fine, but I am having trouble getting the glib source to
compile.
If your PowerBook came with Jaguar, spending $129 or so might make your
life a fair bit more pleasant here. :-) (I don't know whether there
were free upgrades available to users who bought sufficiently close to
the release of Panther.)
(Panther, for example, includes dlcompat's "dlopen()"/"dlsym()"
implementations, so you don't have to go through as much effort to get
plugin support.)
Glib compiled out of the box for me on Panther, as did GTK+.
To all you OSX users out there, is there a version of glib that you
recommend for use with Ethereal? What about GTK?
1.2.10 in both cases.
Libpcap?
The one that comes with OS X is probably Good Enough.
(Hint: "sudo chown {yourself} /dev/bpf*" lets you run Ethereal - or
tcpdump, or snort, or... - as yourself, rather than as root. That
applies to all BPF-based systems, although you might have to use "su"
and run it from a new shell if you don't have "sudo", although
1) you have to do it after every reboot on Mac OS X, as "/dev" is
implemented with devfs;
2) you'd have to do the same thing on AIX *but you still have to run
AIX's tcpdump, or an application built with current-CVS or 0.8 beta1
libpcap, as root after a reboot, in order to create the devices in the
first place*;
3) on most versions of {Free,Net,Open}BSD, and probably BSD/OS, "/dev"
is on disk so you'd only have to do that once;
4) on recent 5.x FreeBSD's, "/dev" is implemented with devfs, *but*
it's controlled by a policy file so you could, I think, arrange that
you own "/dev/bpf*".)
