Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Adding -lkstat unconditionally when checking for snmp routines

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 9:43 AM, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Requiring libkstat.* on Linux does not seem to be good ...

*Do* we require it?  I believe we first try just "-lsnmp" and, if that 
fails, we try "-lsnmp -lkstat".  If linking only with "-lsnmp" on Linux 
doesn't work, perhaps we need to try more than just "-lkstat" as 
additional libraries.

If you're referring to the requirement for a crypto library, that's 
currently handled with the "--with-ssl" option; I'm not sure there's a 
good reason why we require users on Linux to specify that option, 
rather than just trying "-lsnmp -lcrypto" as well as "-lsnmp -lkstat".