Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] ethereal 0.7.1 ./configure problems

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From: Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:11:52 -0700
* Carl Skipper (skipper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) done spit this rhetoric:
> Hi,
>     New to the list... hope you guys can help me.  When I run the
> configure script before compiling, I keep getting the following error:
> 
> checking for pcap_open_offline in -lpcap... no
> configure: error: Library libpcap not found

Hmm, it tried to find the library, but couldn't.  Where did it install
libpcap.a?  What does your /etc/ld.so.conf say?

> 
> I downloaded the libpcap libraries as instructed and when making them
> did "make install-incl" as stated in the docs for ethereal.  What am I
> missing here?  I'm running a pretty fresh install of RedHat 6.0 on my
> system.  Thanks for any help...
> 
> -Carl
> 
> 

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NetCache Escalation Engineer
Network Appliance, Inc.

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