Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Compile help question

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

It seems the be looking in /usr/local anyway so what if you leave out
all together.

Thanx,
Jaap

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU) wrote:

> I am trying to compile ethereal .10.14 on a centos 4.3 system. I have
> removed the original ethereal rpm from the load.
>
> I then compiled PF_Ring and libpcap manually which copied the data into
> /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib
>
> /usr/local/lib
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 185584 Apr 24 08:10 libpcap.a
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  11064 Apr 24 07:43 libpfring.a
>
> /usr/local/include
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 22433 Apr 24 08:10 pcap-bpf.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 10523 Apr 24 08:10 pcap.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  3426 Apr 24 08:10 pcap-namedb.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  1601 Apr 24 07:44 pfring.h
>
> I then try to configure ethereal:
>
> ./configure --with-pcap=/usr/local --disable-ethereal --disable-editcap
> --disable-mergecap --with-zlib=/usr --with-ssl=/usr --with-net-snmp=/usr
>
> I keep getting 'configure: error: Library libpcap not found.' although
> from what I can tell the library is there.