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

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU) wrote:
> Aha! Thanks that gave me enough information to locate a post in
> ntop-misc that helped.

Yeah, that's how I found -lpfring mentioned.  Google found some 
ntop-misc posts all reporting problems with *other* programs' (tcpdump, 
snort, etc.) configure scripts failing to work with the pfring libpcap 
due to that libpcap requiring -lpfring.

I'll look at making Ethereal and tcpdump's configure scripts check 
whether -lpfring is required - both of them should already have stuff to 
check for libraries that might be needed on AIX.  (I'm not a snort 
developer, so they'll have to do that themeselves.)