Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] rpcap support seems to have disappeared ...

[Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2017, at 11:06 AM, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Sure. The immediate problem though is that acinclude.m4 assumes that
>> checking for pcap_open is sufficient and required to enable
>> HAVE_PCAP_REMOTE.
>
> If you don't have pcap_open(), you probably don't have remote support, which is why it's required.
>
> I suppose it isn't "sufficient" in the sense that one could, in principle, build a version of libpcap that has pcap_open() but that only supports local capture, but that's rather unlikely.
>
>> Having hacked my way around that, it is clear from the resulting build
>> failures that a more recent version of libpcap is required :-(
>
> That's the universe's way of telling you that perhaps, sometimes, you should trust that autotools knows what it's doing, and not try to hack around it. :-)

Well, I am trying to figure out the simplest required things to get
this working on Linux ...

Now that I have the latest version of libpcap from the repo built and
installed, I seem to have library issues, but I can figure those out
...

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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