Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problems compiling pcap-util.c

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:47:13 -0800 (PST)
Michael Tuexen said:
> I have problems compiling pcap-util.c in the current CVS on Mac OS X.

Did you just get the latest Security Update for Panther?

If so, unfortunately, it introduces a Shiny New Libpcap (which it didn't
have to do - it picks up tcpdump 0.8.1, to fix some possible security
holes, but 0.8.1 should work Just Fine with the older 0.6-vintage libpcap
that was in 10.3) but doesn't include the Shiny New Header Files for that
libpcap.

So, if you're running Mac OS X 10.3[.x] and just got the latest Security
Update, try replacing "/usr/include/pcap.h" with the one in the libpcap
0.8.1 source tree, and also install libpcap 0.8.1's "pcap-stdinc.h" and
"pcap-bpf.h" in "/usr/include" - or just configure, make, and make install
libpcap 0.8.1 - and then, in the Ethereal source tree, do a "make
distclean", re-run configure, and do a make.