Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] configure failes with nonstandard installation of libpacap

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From: "Harald.Schoeffel" <Harald.Schoeffel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 13:01:12 +0200
Joerg Mayer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 11:15:26AM +0200, Harald.Schoeffel wrote:
> > # ./configure --prefix=/phys/tools/ethereal-0.9.5
> > --includedir=/opt/<somedir>/include
> >
> > which complained about a not found net/bpf.h
> ...
> > CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$includedir"
> 
> Do a ./configure --help | grep pcap
> It will tell you about an option to set the path to pcap.
> 
>  ciao
>    Jörg
> 
> --
> Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
> what proactive means.

Yes. --with-pcap=<prefix_libpcap>  did the trick. 
Thank you and sorry for my ignorance.

Cheers,
Harald

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