Ethereal-cvs: [ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal libpcap-0.4.HPUX.HPUXPAC.patch libpcap-0.4.H

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 02:49:03 -0500 (CDT)
guy         2000/08/13 02:49:00 CDT

  Modified files:
    .                    Makefile.am README.hpux 
  Added files:
    .                    libpcap-0.4.HPUX.HPUXPAC.patch 
                         libpcap-0.4.HPUX.LBL.patch 
                         libpcap-0.5.HPUX.tcpdump.org.patch 
  Log:
  Give, in "README.hpux", what appears to be the new URL for the UK HP-UX
  Porting and Archive Centre site.
  
  Warn in the very beginning of that file that libpcap may not work very
  well without patches.  Give patches to libpcap for:
  
  	vanilla LBL libpcap 0.4
  
  	vanilla tcpdump.org libpcap 0.5
  
  	libpcap 0.4 from the HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre (which is
  	the only version that includes configure-script changes to work
  	with HP's C compiler as well as GCC)
  
  and put them in files separate from "README.hpux" (to make it easier for
  users to apply the patches).
  
  Make those versions of the patch give a slightly different error message
  if libpcap fails to find the PPA for the device, to make it easier to
  figure out if the user reporting a problem with HP-UX capture has a
  patched version of libpcap or not (so that we know whether the problem
  may just be that they're using an unmodified libpcap, or if they're
  running a patched version and that patch needs more work, e.g. to look
  at devices other than just "/dev/dlpi").
  
  Give information on how to find "patch", warn that probably only the
  HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre version will work with the HP C
  compiler, warn that applying a version of the patch other than the one
  for the particular version of libpcap you've downloaded will probably
  not work, and warn that you need to download source to libpcap in order
  to do any of this in the first place.
  
  (The current libpcap CVS tree at tcpdump.org has this patch in it, so
  the next release of libpcap from tcpdump.org should have it; hopefully
  the HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre will switch to that version when it
  comes out, and people will just be able to push a few buttons to get an
  Ethereal that works on HP-UX.)
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.221     +4 -1      ethereal/Makefile.am
  1.13      +46 -515   ethereal/README.hpux