[Mark Sholund <msholund1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I support some users who require Ethereal to be run from a shared 
location on a Solaris server.  In order to do this, I must compile 
Ethereal directly from the source.  Those that I support are not 
allowed/don't need to capture packets, only be able to read them, so I 
compile with the flag --without-pcap.  In 0.10.7 and 0.10.9, I have 
encountered problems where there is code that should be inside of 
'#ifdef HAVE_LIBPCAP' blocks.  In 0.10.9, the lines that I find these 
problems in are

gtk/main.c: 1651      capture_opts->capture_child = FALSE;
gtk/main.c: 2409      font_init(capture_opts->capture_child);

I changed 2409 to the following
#ifdef HAVE_LIBPCAP
   font_init(capture_opts->capture_child);
#else
   font_init(FALSE);
#endif

since 1651 shows that capture_opts->capture_child == FALSE when 
HAVE_LIBPCAP is undefined.

I get errors stating that I'm trying to access an incomplete type; from 
what I see in the source code, since HAVE_LIBPCAP is not defined 
capture_opts should be undefined which leads to that result.  I managed 
to change the code in order to get it to compile but I'm not 100% 
certain that my changes will not have consequences.  I am curious if 
anybody else has compiled without libpcap and had similar problems.  I 
am also curious if the developers compile ethereal without libpcap 
support to see if the conditional compilation blocks are well placed.

There were different but similar problems in 0.10.7.

I assume that my case is different from the majority of cases where 
Ethereal is used, i.e. most people want capture support, so this might 
not be something that is tested prior to release.  So far the problems 
that have arisen have been minor enough that I can fix them without 
delving deep into the code.