Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal acinclude.m4 tethereal.c

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:32:50 +0200
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:13:21PM -0500, Guy Harris wrote:
>   Not all versions of libpcap have "pcap_compile_nopcap()"; use it only if
>   we have it.

Ah, too bad not everyone is using  my software setup :-)
I'm wondering though whether it I simply should expand the call to
pcap_compiie_nopcap to its basic calls, thus a) removing another
configure check and making this feature work on more platforms?
Actually, what I just thought about: Maybe I can just copy the
code from libpcap into tethereal (~10 lines), but maybe not:
It looks to me that libpcap still has the original BSD-License
including the advertising clause in it, which makes it incompatible
with the Ethereal license :-/

>   Not all versions of libpcap have DLT_LINUX_SLL, either; use DLT_EN10MB
>   instead.

Something like that was bound to happen :-)

Thanks for the fixes!

  Ciao
     Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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