Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] libpcap min version for Wireshark 3.0?

From: Anders Broman <a.broman58@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 19:03:16 +0000


Den tors 26 apr. 2018 19:08Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev:
On Apr 26, 2018, at 7:56 AM, Anders Broman <a.broman58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If I remember correctly the discussion was regarding some arkaic version (0.9.x) used on SuSE 11. For which we did some changes in autotools. Not sure if we do for cmake. Just thought we could request something with the same time line in the distributions as the other restrictions we impose like glib 2.32.

If we require libpcap 1.0 and later, we can rely on pcap_create() existing, which would let us simplify some code.  However, if SuSE 11 still provides an 0.9 release, that'd mean we wouldn't allow building on SuSE 11.

I'm not sure whether being able to assume the availability of other routines as a result of requiring a later release would be worth it.

SuSE 11 is out due to other dependencies so require 1.0 would be OK and perhaps desired then.
Regards 
Anders 
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