Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Non-Standard libpcap installation...

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From: Matthew Cerha <mcerha@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:20:56 -0500
Hi,

I apologize in advance if this has already been covered, but I searched the
list archives / web and could not find a relevant discussion. I'm trying to
compile Ethereal 0.8.18 from source on a system with a non-standard libpcap
installation (or non-installion as its just the libpcap source directory). I've
been playing around with the autoconf stuff in aclocal.m4 and can get the
configure script to find the pcap.h and net/bpf.h include files, but it fails
when it tries the pcap_live_open() check complaining of not being able to find
-lpcap. Does anyone know the magic I need to perform to get the configure
script to "see" the appended library path? BTW, I'm working on a RH 7.1 system
w/o the libpcap / tcpdump RPM's installed. Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Matthew Cerha         | "*If*, is the word in the middle of *life*."
mcerha AT io.com      |              --Apocalypse Now