Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Compile help question

["King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU)" <Greg.King@xxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to compile ethereal .10.14 on a centos 4.3 system. I have
removed the original ethereal rpm from the load.

I then compiled PF_Ring and libpcap manually which copied the data into
/usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib

/usr/local/lib
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 185584 Apr 24 08:10 libpcap.a
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  11064 Apr 24 07:43 libpfring.a

/usr/local/include
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 22433 Apr 24 08:10 pcap-bpf.h
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 10523 Apr 24 08:10 pcap.h
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3426 Apr 24 08:10 pcap-namedb.h
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1601 Apr 24 07:44 pfring.h

I then try to configure ethereal:

./configure --with-pcap=/usr/local --disable-ethereal --disable-editcap
--disable-mergecap --with-zlib=/usr --with-ssl=/usr --with-net-snmp=/usr

I keep getting 'configure: error: Library libpcap not found.' although
from what I can tell the library is there. The output is below if anyone
has any idea on why this is failing.

Configure Output

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for g77... no
checking for f77... no
checking for xlf... no
checking for frt... no
checking for pgf77... no
checking for fort77... no
checking for fl32... no
checking for af77... no
checking for f90... no
checking for xlf90... no
checking for pgf90... no
checking for epcf90... no
checking for f95... no
checking for fort... no
checking for xlf95... no
checking for ifc... no
checking for efc... no
checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether  accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc static flag  works... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared
libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking for shl_load... no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
checking for dlopen... no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes
checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared
libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared
libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking for shl_load... (cached) no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... (cached) no
checking for dlopen... (cached) no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... (cached) yes
checking whether a program can dlopen itself... (cached) yes
checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself...
(cached) yes
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... byacc
checking for flex... flex
checking for yywrap in -lfl... yes
checking lex output file root... lex.yy
checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for pod2man... /usr/bin/pod2man
checking for pod2html... /usr/bin/pod2html
checking for htmlview... /usr/bin/htmlview
checking for flex... /usr/bin/flex
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for doxygen... no
checking for doxygen... no
checking for xsltproc... /usr/bin/xsltproc
checking for xsltproc... yes
checking for xmllint... /usr/bin/xmllint
checking for xmllint... yes
checking for fop... no
checking for fop... no
checking for hhc.exe... no
checking for hhc.exe... no
checking for pkgproto... no
checking for pkgmk... no
checking for pkgtrans... no
checking for rpm... yes
checking to see if we can redefine _topdir... yes
checking to see if we can add '-Wall -W ' to CFLAGS... yes
checking for platform-specific compiler flags... none needed
checking whether to use /usr/local for headers and libraries... yes
checking for GNU sed as first sed in PATH... yes
checking if profile builds must be generated... no
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.4.7)
checking whether GLib supports loadable modules... yes
checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
checking whether inttypes.h defines the PRI[doxu]64 macros... yes
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking whether to use libpcap for packet capture... yes
checking pcap.h usability... yes
checking pcap.h presence... yes
checking for pcap.h... yes
checking for pcap_open_live in -lpcap... no
checking for pcap_open_live in -lpcap -lcfg -lodm... no
configure: error: Library libpcap not found.

Greg