Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] autoconf patches to 0.8.16

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On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:39:28PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:47:42AM -0600, ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Ok, let's try again. New patch attached with Guy's suggestions
> > applied.
> 
> The new version doesn't default to enabling libpcap or libz if no
> "--with-pcap" or "--with-zlib" - you need to do something such as
> 
> 	AC_ARG_WITH(pcap,
> 	[  --with-pcap[=DIR]       use libpcap for packet capturing (and
>                           search DIR for includes/libraries) [default=yes]],
> 	[
> 		case "${with_pcap}" in
> 		no)
> 			use_pcap=no
> 			;;
> 		yes)
> 			use_pcap=yes
> 			;;
> 		*)
> 			use_pcap=yes
> 			if test -d "${with_pcap}"; then
> 				CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I${with_pcap}/include"
> 				LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L${with_pcap}/lib"
> 			fi
> 			;;
> 		esac
> 	],
> 	[
> 		use_pcap=yes
> 	])
> 
> setting the "use_XXX" variable to "yes" in the ACTION-IF-NOT-GIVEN part
> of the AC_ARG_WITH macro.  (Do that both in the main and Wiretap
> configure scripts, and also include the "[default=yes]" part in the
> Wiretap scripts.  Both the libpcap and libz checks need to do it.)

Done. Patch coming. I'll test first. Thanks!

> Also, when, on my FreeBSD 3.4 machine, I temporarily removed "pcap.h"
> from "/usr/include", and removed the "libpcap.*" files from "/usr/lib",
> and built and installed libpcap from CVS under "/usr/local", "configure"
> didn't find it - it didn't check "/usr/local/{include,lib}" for the
> headers or libraries.

Did you apply the part of the patch that removed -I/usr/local/include
from CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS in configure.in?

-- 
albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)