Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Compilation problems with CVS libpcap

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen RP O'Connell wrote:

> nm prints:
>
> /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a:gencode.o:         U pcap_parse

What does

	nm -po /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a | egrep grammar.o

print?

> This is the first time I've used nm - the man page says that U means the
> symbol is undefined, but I'm not 100% sure exactly what that means?

It means that the symbol is undefined, and there's a reference to it 
from the file "grammar.o" in the library.