Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: FW: A question on installation of ethereal

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:26:22 -0500
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:10:43PM -0800, Navada, Muraleedhara wrote:
> hi
> 
> can you help on the following ?

Instead of directing this e-mail to one or two people, you should
send your inquiries to one of the mailing lists for Ethereal.

ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx would be a good choice.

> > checking for gtk-config... /home/navada/utils/bin/gtk-config
> > checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... yes
> > checking for glib-config... /home/navada/utils/bin/glib-config

> > checking for net/bpf.h... yes
> > checking for pcap.h... yes
> > checking for pcap_open_live in -lpcap... no
> > configure: error: Library libpcap not found.

You seem to have your own installation of packages (gtk, glib, and
probably pcap) in /home/navada/utils

It appears you added /home/navada/utils/bin to PATH, and that
you added the appropriate -I flag to CFLAGS.

I'll bet that libpcap.a (or libpcap.so) is in /home/navada/utils/lib,
but that you did not set LDFLAGS appropriately, so that the linker
cannot find libpcap.a. Am I close?

The INSTALL.configure document, which is the standard INSTALL
document that comes with autoconf-packaged distributions,
talks about this environment variable.

--gilbert