Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap make problem

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From: Gilbert_Ramirez@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:35:43 -0500


Yep, indeed we should.

--gilbert

Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> on 08/16/2000 05:29:42 PM

To:   Gilbert Ramirez/Tivoli Systems@Tivoli Systems
cc:   Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>, Narendra Chaparala
      <Narendra.Chaparala@xxxxxxxxxxx>, ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx
Subject:  Re: [ethereal-dev] Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap make problem




> The error about chomp() would seem to indicate that you're running perl 4, as
> perl 5 introduced chomp().

Should we arrange that the configure script look for a Perl that
supports the stuff we need, rather than just looking for "perl", or,
alternatively, check that the "perl" it found is Perl 5 or better and,
if not, tell the user that they need Perl 5 and point them at
"http://www.perl.org/";?