[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Sholund wrote:

> 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.

As Luis Ontanon noted, that doesn't necessarily prevent those users from 
capturing packets - they could use snoop, or could compile libpcap and 
tcpdump, or could even compile libpcap and Ethereal.

> 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've checked in a fix for those.

> 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.

Yes.