On Oct 27, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 3) It will neither compile nor link.
>
> The attached patch will make it compile and link
It will also add confusion to the API and ABI on UN*X. Windows is already weird, so we're stuck with that.
I checked in a change, 65a5b4b53ee23c12b9e823615d23a921c64f40f0, that makes all the references to the additional fields Windows-only.
> Feel free to ignore, modify or apply the patch
I checked in, as separate changes, all but the pcap.h change and...
> (the policy 42 stuff fixes
> the symptom instead of the root cause).
...the policy 42 stuff. Apple doesn't build libpcap with an @rpath install_name, and we don't do so with autotools, so I'm not sure whether we want to do that.