Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] ./configure problem -- Header file net/bpf.h not found

[Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

* Richard Demanowski (rdemanow@xxxxxxxxxxx) done spit this rhetoric:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Jerry Talkington wrote:
> > You'll need to download the libpcap source and do a "make install-incl" to
> > install the headers that ethereal needs.  I don't know why RedHat doesn't
> > have a libpcap-devel package...
> 
> OK, I got the libpcap source (libpcap-4.0.tar.gz), but when I try to do a
> ./configure for it on my RedHat box, I get the error "checking for ANSI
> ioctl definitions ... no <newline> configure: error: see the INSTALL for
> more details."
> 
> When I look in INSTALL, all it sais about ioctl is if the "checking for"
> line sais "yes" I need to run fixincludes (which does not exist on my
> system).
> 
> The ethereal INSTALL file seems to think that there *is* a libpcap-devel
> rpm file.  If so, where can I find it?

Okay, it seems that RedHat has decided to bundle it all in one big package,
so it's installed, just in the wrong place.  They installed everything into
the /usr/include/pcap directory, where it can't find it's own components...

You can cd /usr/include/pcap and " cp -a * .. " to put it in it's right
place.

-- 
Jerry Talkington
NetCache Escalation Engineer
Network Appliance, Inc.

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