Ethereal-dev: Re: [jw@xxxxxxxx: Re: [ethereal-dev] compilation-error with ethereal 0.8.2]
> I solved the compilation-problem. The reason was my stupidity.
> Some months ago, I patched and installed the libpcap, but I only
> made a silly "make install" and forgot a "make install-incl" so
> the SuSE pcap.h was still placed in /usr/include and wasn=B4t
> overwritten. :-(
But the problem would still show up on systems with the vanilla SuSE
libpcap (and may show up with libpcap 0.5 when it comes out, as I think
they did the same thing), so the change should still go in; I've
attached a patch.
> Sorry for wasting your time
No, you didn't waste our time - you found a real problem in Ethereal,
which we need to fix.
> and sorry for my horrible English too!
It wasn't horrible at all....
(Q: What do you call a person who speaks three languages?
A: Trilingual.
Q: What do you call a person who speaks two languages?
A: Bilingual.
Q. What do you call a person who speaks one language?
A: American.)
Index: capture.c
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/ethereal/capture.c,v
retrieving revision 1.91
diff -c -r1.91 capture.c
*** capture.c 2000/01/23 08:55:30 1.91
--- capture.c 2000/01/26 22:45:46
***************
*** 853,859 ****
ld->go = FALSE;
}
if (ld->pdh) {
! whdr.ts = phdr->ts;
whdr.caplen = phdr->caplen;
whdr.len = phdr->len;
whdr.pkt_encap = ld->linktype;
--- 853,864 ----
ld->go = FALSE;
}
if (ld->pdh) {
! /* "phdr->ts" may not necessarily be a "struct timeval" - it may
! be a "struct bpf_timeval", with member sizes wired to 32
! bits - and we may go that way ourselves in the future, so
! copy the members individually. */
! whdr.ts.tv_sec = phdr->ts.tv_sec;
! whdr.ts.tv_usec = phdr->ts.tv_usec;
whdr.caplen = phdr->caplen;
whdr.len = phdr->len;
whdr.pkt_encap = ld->linktype;
