Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] ethereal-0.9.0 compilation bug

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From: Malai Adigal <malai.adigal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:32:49 -0500
Hi fyi.. this was actual problem. Now I'm using latest version of ethereal.
Its cooooool.

Thanks to Dev and User community.
Malai

-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Mayer [mailto:jmayer@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 2:52 PM
To: Malai Adigal
Cc: 'Joerg Mayer'; Richard Sharpe; 'ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal-0.9.0 compilation bug


On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:09:50PM -0500, Malai Adigal wrote:
> Here is what I upgraded:
> gcc version 3.2
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.53
> automake 1.6
> 
> Now I don't know exactly which one is causing problem.

The problem is that the release tarball was created with autoconf 2.13
and you are using gcc3.2
You can recreate the configure file and everything should work fine
Just run autoconf in the toplevel, epan and wiretap directories.

 Ciao
       Jörg


-----Original Message-----
From: Ronnie Sahlberg [mailto:sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 4:28 PM
To: Malai Adigal; ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] ethereal-0.9.0 compilation bug


0.9.0 is ancient.

Please try the current 0.9.6 instead.

From: "Malai Adigal"
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 2:23 AM
Subject: [Ethereal-users] ethereal-0.9.0 compilation bug


> Hi,
> I have installed gtk-1.2.10 and glib-1.2.10 and lipcap-0.6.2
> Also there is no such "make install-incl" in this version of
libpcap-0.6.2.
> When I compiled ethereal-0.9.0 it sucks at the following:
>
> checking whether to use libpcap for packet capture... yes
> checking for extraneous pcap header directories... found --
> -I/vox/tools/emm/eth/include added to CFLAGS
> checking for net/bpf.h... no
> configure: error: Header file net/bpf.h not found; if you installed
libpcap
> from source, did you also do "make install-incl"?
>
>
> But I checked there net/bpf.h exists under include
> (vox/tools/emm/eth/include)
> Any help to fix this problem appreciated.
> Malai
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