Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Update to Ethereal Users's Guide

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:25:18 -0700

On Jun 15, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Thueson, Tyler N (Boise-2L MIT) wrote:
In the Users Guide at http://www.ethereal.com/docs/eug_html/, "Example 2.2. Building and installing libpcap" needs to be updated for libpcap version 0.9.4. The commands have changed from 

./configure
make
make install
make install-incl

to

./configure
make
make install
make install-shared
make install-shared-so


Not on all platforms, they haven't.
Shared libraries are supported only on those platforms using GNU ld as the linker and on OS X/Darwin. However, most if not all of those platforms have libpcap bundled with the OS or available in developer's packages; OS X does, as do most of the BSDs, and I think most "mainstream" non-embedded Linux distributions do.
I've updated the User's Guide not to mention the "install-incl" script, however, as that's no longer an installation step. 
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