Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Install failure at configure stage

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Breher wrote:
> Joerg Mayer wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:16:19AM -0600, Joe Breher wrote:
> > ...
> >   
> > > checking for ucd-snmp/ucd-snmp-config.h... yes
> > > checking whether UCD SNMP includes sprint_realloc_objid... no
> > > configure: error: UCD SNMP requires -lcrypto but --with-ssl not specified
> > > [jbreher@martor wireshark-0.99.3a]$
> > >     
> > ...
> > What in the last line of configure containing the error: message
> > is hard to understand?
> >   
> Well, the fact that there is an error due to the fact that UCD SNMP 
> seems to be unhappy about some lcrypto thingy isn't too hard to 
> understand. What is unclear is WTF I should do about it. Do I need to 
> rebuild UCD SNMP, specifying --with-ssl before I can build wireshark? If 
> so, how would I go about doing this?  There is no info that I have seen 
> in the install instructions that indicate that this may be a 
> possibility. I am merely trying to follow the install instructions for a 
> generally released version of the source, on a dirt-common OS.
>
> So now that we've all had a laugh at the noob, can anyone help me 
> resolve this issue?

Sorry, my post was a question to the developers to help make it easier 
for people in general.

Anyway, for your case, just reconfigure Wireshark like this:

./configure --with-ssl

(or)

./configure --without-ucd-snmp

depending on if you want SNMP (first case) or not (second case).