Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Missing libwiretap.a ....

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From: Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:10:40 +0100
On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 6:55 pm, jbl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Wifiscanner witch depend to ethereal. When i
> compiling ethereal all seen's ok.
>
> Now when i'm trying to compile wififscanner , this error pop up  :
>
> "checking for libwiretap.a location... configure: error: no wiretap
> librarie found, take a look at http://www.ethereal.com/";
>
> An locate libwiretap show :
>
> /usr/lib/libwiretap.so.0
> /usr/lib/libwiretap.so.0.0.1
> /usr/local/lib/libwiretap.la
> /usr/local/lib/libwiretap.so
> /usr/local/lib/libwiretap.so.0
> /usr/local/lib/libwiretap.so.0.0.1
>
> Do you know how can i obtain a libwiretap.a ?!

libwiretap.a is in ethereal/wiretap.
Is there some configuration you need to do to wifiscanner to point it to 
the ethereal source directory? Or did you delete the source after 
installing it?

-- 
Richard Urwin