Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] build problem

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

bitmus DA wrote:

> i waited and downloaded version 0.99.8
> then configured it --without-pcap and compiled. but error still here

That's another bug, not fixed in 0.99.8, but fixed in the current SVN, 
so that *particular* fix should be in the next release.

For better or worse, most developers don't build without libpcap, and 
the buildbots don't build without libpcap, so build problems when 
building without libpcap don't tend to get discovered and fixed.

Obviously, we don't want all the buildbots building *only* without libpcap.

We could perhaps do all builds first with, and then without, libpcap - 
or first without, and then with, libpcap, with post-build tests done on 
the versions with libpcap - although that would slow the buildbots down 
somewhat.

The Solaris buildbot appears to have taken about 4 3/4 minutes to run 
the configure script, and about 1 hour 38 minutes to do the build, 
unless I'm missing something, so it'd add about 1 3/4 hours to the 
Solaris build procedure to do both builds.

However, if we *only* do it on, say, the OS X buildbot, it shouldn't 
slow things down too much (about 15 minutes), and would probably catch 
most if not all of the problems with non-pcap builds.