Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GUI Change for Wireshark Remote Interfaces
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:54:30 -0700
On Oct 27, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 3) It will neither compile nor link.
> 
> The attached patch will make it compile and link

It will also add confusion to the API and ABI on UN*X.  Windows is already weird, so we're stuck with that.

I checked in a change, 65a5b4b53ee23c12b9e823615d23a921c64f40f0, that makes all the references to the additional fields Windows-only.

> Feel free to ignore, modify or apply the patch

I checked in, as separate changes, all but the pcap.h change and...

> (the policy 42 stuff fixes
> the symptom instead of the root cause).

...the policy 42 stuff.  Apple doesn't build libpcap with an @rpath install_name, and we don't do so with autotools, so I'm not sure whether we want to do that.