Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Compilations Problems

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From: Ashok Narayanan <ashokn@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:36:40 -0400 (EDT)
The other thing to note is that if you build and install a source
version of libpcap, it's not sufficient to run "make install" (since
this only installs the library). You also need to run "make
install-incl" to install the pcap.h and bpf.h includes.

-Ashok

Guy Harris writes:
 > > I am trying to compile version 7.2 on Redhat 6.0 and am receiving the 
 > > following errors when I type ./configure.
 > 
 > Did you install the "libpcap" RPM from the RH 6.0 CD (or from their FTP
 > site)?
 > 
 > If not, did you install the "libpcap" library in some other fashion,
 > e.g. from source?
 > 
 > In order to have an Ethereal capable of capturing packets, you need the
 > "libpcap" library; if you just want to read packets captured on other
 > machines, you can build Ethereal without "libpcap" by running the
 > "configure" script with "--disable-pcap".

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