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

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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:10:55 -0600
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:03:32AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:57:22AM -0600, ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > BTW, should I AC_MSG_ERROR for --with-pcap=no in the top-level
> > ./configure?
> 
> If by that you mean "should I cause the configure script to fail with an
> error message if the user specified '--with-pcap=no'", the answer is
> "no".  As the autoconf documentation says:
> 
> 	`--without-PACKAGE' is equivalent to `--with-PACKAGE=no'.
> 
> and that would mean there'd be no way to force Ethereal *not* to be
> built with libpcap or libz.

Ok, here's a new acinclude.m4 and wiretap/acinclude.m4. Patches
against the original 0.8.16 versions.

-- 
albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

-- snip snip
--- acinclude.m4.orig	Wed Mar  7 20:20:40 2001
+++ acinclude.m4	Thu Mar  8 01:45:39 2001
@@ -242,39 +242,67 @@
 #
 AC_DEFUN(AC_ETHEREAL_PCAP_CHECK,
 [
-	# Evidently, some systems have pcap.h, etc. in */include/pcap
-	AC_MSG_CHECKING(for extraneous pcap header directories)
-	found_pcap_dir=""
-	for pcap_dir in /usr/include/pcap /usr/local/include/pcap $prefix/include
-	do
-	  if test -d $pcap_dir ; then
-	    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$pcap_dir"
-	    CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$pcap_dir"
-	    found_pcap_dir=" $found_pcap_dir -I$pcap_dir"
-	  fi
-	done
-
-	if test "$found_pcap_dir" != "" ; then
-	  AC_MSG_RESULT(found --$found_pcap_dir added to CFLAGS)
-	else
-	  AC_MSG_RESULT(not found)
+	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
+	])
+
+	# if --with-pcap not set to a path, search in pre-defined locations
+	if test "${with_pcap}" = "yes"; then
+		# Evidently, some systems have pcap.h, etc. in */include/pcap
+		AC_MSG_CHECKING(for extraneous pcap header directories)
+		found_pcap_dir=""
+
+		for pcap_dir in /usr/include/pcap /usr/local/include/pcap \
+		$prefix/include; do
+			if test -d $pcap_dir ; then
+				CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$pcap_dir"
+				found_pcap_dir=" $found_pcap_dir -I$pcap_dir"
+				break
+			fi
+		done
+
+		if test "$found_pcap_dir" != "" ; then
+			AC_MSG_RESULT([$found_pcap_dir added to CPPFLAGS])
+		else
+			AC_MSG_RESULT([not found])
+		fi
 	fi
 
-	# Pcap header checks
-	AC_CHECK_HEADER(net/bpf.h,,
-	    AC_MSG_ERROR([[Header file net/bpf.h not found; if you installed libpcap from source, did you also do \"make install-incl\"?]]))
-	AC_CHECK_HEADER(pcap.h,, AC_MSG_ERROR(Header file pcap.h not found.))
-
-	#
-	# Check to see if we find "pcap_open_live" in "-lpcap".
-	#
-	AC_CHECK_LIB(pcap, pcap_open_live,
-	  [
-	    PCAP_LIBS=-lpcap
-	    AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBPCAP)
-	  ], AC_MSG_ERROR(Library libpcap not found.),
-	  $SOCKET_LIBS $NSL_LIBS)
-	AC_SUBST(PCAP_LIBS)
+	if test "${use_pcap}" = "yes"; then
+		# Pcap header checks
+		AC_CHECK_HEADER(net/bpf.h, ,
+			AC_MSG_ERROR([[Header file net/bpf.h not found; if you installed libpcap from source, did you also do \"make install-incl\"?]]))
+		AC_CHECK_HEADER(pcap.h, ,
+			AC_MSG_ERROR([Header file pcap.h not found]))
+
+		#
+		# Check to see if we find "pcap_open_live" in "-lpcap".
+		#
+		AC_CHECK_LIB(pcap, pcap_open_live,[
+			PCAP_LIBS=-lpcap
+			AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBPCAP)],
+			AC_MSG_ERROR([Library libpcap not found]),
+			$SOCKET_LIBS $NSL_LIBS)
+		AC_SUBST(PCAP_LIBS)
+	fi
 ])
 
 #
@@ -282,16 +310,42 @@
 #
 AC_DEFUN(AC_ETHEREAL_ZLIB_CHECK,
 [
-        AC_CHECK_HEADER(zlib.h,,enable_zlib=no)
+	_cppflags=${CPPFLAGS}
+	_ldflags=${LDFLAGS}
+
+	AC_ARG_WITH(zlib,
+	[  --with-zlib[=DIR]       use zlib to read compressed data (and
+                          search in DIR for includes/libraries) [default=yes]],[
+		case "${with_zlib}" in
+		no)
+			use_zlib=no
+			;;
+		yes)
+			use_zlib=yes
+			;;
+		*)
+			use_zlib=yes
+			if test -d "$with_zlib"; then
+				CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I$withval/include"
+				LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L$withval/lib"
+			fi
+			;;
+		esac
+	],[
+		use_zlib=yes
+	])
 
-        dnl
-        dnl Check for "gzgets()" in zlib, because we need it, but
-        dnl some older versions of zlib don't have it.  It appears
-        dnl from the ChangeLog that any released version of zlib
-        dnl with "gzgets()" should have the other routines we
-        dnl depend on, such as "gzseek()", "gztell()", and "zError()".
-        dnl
-        AC_CHECK_LIB(z, gzgets,,enable_zlib=no)
+	if test "${use_zlib}" = "yes"; then
+		AC_CHECK_HEADER(zlib.h,
+    			AC_CHECK_LIB(z, gzread, , use_zlib=no),
+			use_zlib=no)
+
+		if test "${use_zlib}" = "no"; then
+			CPPFLAGS=${_cppflags}
+			LDFLAGS=${_ldflags}
+			AC_MSG_WARN([zlib not found -- disabling compressed capture file support])
+		fi
+	fi
 ])
 
 #
--- wiretap/acinclude.m4.orig	Wed Mar  7 20:44:55 2001
+++ wiretap/acinclude.m4	Thu Mar  8 01:46:12 2001
@@ -207,26 +207,56 @@
 #
 AC_DEFUN(AC_WIRETAP_PCAP_CHECK,
 [
-	# Evidently, some systems have pcap.h, etc. in */include/pcap
-	AC_MSG_CHECKING(for extraneous pcap header directories)
-	found_pcap_dir=""
-	for pcap_dir in /usr/include/pcap /usr/local/include/pcap $prefix/include
-	do
-	  if test -d $pcap_dir ; then
-	    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$pcap_dir"
-	    CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$pcap_dir"
-	    found_pcap_dir=" $found_pcap_dir -I$pcap_dir"
-	  fi
-	done
-
-	if test "$found_pcap_dir" != "" ; then
-	  AC_MSG_RESULT(found --$found_pcap_dir added to CFLAGS)
-	else
-	  AC_MSG_RESULT(not found)
+	_cppflags=${CPPFLAGS}
+
+	AC_ARG_WITH(pcap,
+	[  --with-pcap[=DIR]       use libpcap for packet capturing (and
+                          search DIR for includes) [default=yes]],[
+		case "${with_pcap}" in
+		no)
+			use_pcap=no
+			;;
+		yes)
+			use_pcap=yes
+			;;
+		*)
+			use_pcap=yes
+			if test -d "$withval"; then
+				CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I$withval/include"
+			fi
+			;;
+		esac
+	],[
+		use_pcap=yes
+	])
+
+	# if --with-pcap not set to a path, search in pre-defined locations
+	if test "${with_pcap}" = "yes"; then
+		# Evidently, some systems have pcap.h, etc. in */include/pcap
+		AC_MSG_CHECKING(for extraneous pcap header directories)
+		found_pcap_dir=""
+
+		for pcap_dir in /usr/include/pcap /usr/local/include/pcap \
+		$prefix/include; do
+			if test -d $pcap_dir ; then
+				CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$pcap_dir"
+				found_pcap_dir=" $found_pcap_dir -I$pcap_dir"
+				break
+			fi
+		done
+
+		if test "$found_pcap_dir" != "" ; then
+			AC_MSG_RESULT([$found_pcap_dir added to CPPFLAGS])
+		else
+			AC_MSG_RESULT([not found])
+		fi
 	fi
 
-	# Pcap header check
-	AC_CHECK_HEADERS(pcap.h)
+	if test "${use_pcap}" = "yes"; then
+		# Pcap header checks
+		AC_CHECK_HEADERS(pcap.h, ,
+			test -n "${_cppflags}" && CPPFLAGS=${_cppflags})
+	fi
 ])
 
 #
@@ -234,14 +264,40 @@
 #
 AC_DEFUN(AC_WIRETAP_ZLIB_CHECK,
 [
-        AC_CHECK_HEADER(zlib.h,,enable_zlib=no)
+	_cppflags=${CPPFLAGS}
+	_ldflags=${LDFLAGS}
+
+	AC_ARG_WITH(zlib,
+	[  --with-zlib[=DIR]       use zlib to read compressed data (and
+                          search in DIR for includes/libraries) [default=yes]],[
+		case "${with_zlib}" in
+		no)
+			use_zlib=no
+			;;
+		yes)
+			use_zlib=yes
+			;;
+		*)
+			use_zlib=yes
+			if test -d "$with_zlib"; then
+				CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I$withval/include"
+				LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L$withval/lib"
+			fi
+			;;
+		esac
+	],[
+		use_zlib=yes
+	])
 
-        dnl
-        dnl Check for "gzgets()" in zlib, because we need it, but
-        dnl some older versions of zlib don't have it.  It appears
-        dnl from the ChangeLog that any released version of zlib
-        dnl with "gzgets()" should have the other routines we
-        dnl depend on, such as "gzseek()", "gztell()", and "zError()".
-        dnl
-        AC_CHECK_LIB(z, gzgets,,enable_zlib=no)
+	if test "${use_zlib}" = "yes"; then
+		AC_CHECK_HEADER(zlib.h,
+    			AC_CHECK_LIB(z, gzread, , use_zlib=no),
+			use_zlib=no)
+
+		if test "${use_zlib}" = "no"; then
+			CPPFLAGS=${_cppflags}
+			LDFLAGS=${_ldflags}
+			AC_MSG_WARN([zlib not found -- disabling compressed capture file support])
+		fi
+	fi
 ])