Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Get shared libpcap

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 23:55:27 -0700
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 10:45:47AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > checking for pcap_open_offline in -lpcap... yes < This requires a shared
> > version.
> 
> Why does it require a shared version?

It's not *supposed* to require a shared version; if it can't find
"pcap_open_offline()" in "-lpcap" if you have only a non-shared version,
that's a bug (either in the configure script or in your OS), and we want
to fix the bug, if it's in the configure script, or work around it, if
it's in the OS.

It doesn't require a shared version on, say, Solaris - it builds just
fine on Solaris systems at work, and my Solaris partition at home, with
only a static "libpcap".

What are the symptoms of the problem you see when you have no shared
"libpcap"?