[Fwd: Re: [Rpcap-users] Re: rtdump won't compile...]

[Mattt <ma...@ab...>]

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> From: Mattt <ma...@ab...>
> To: S. Krishnan <sri...@ya...>
> Subject: Re: [Rpcap-users] Re: rtdump won't compile...
> Date: 03 Nov 2002 19:18:01 +1000
> 
> On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 08:42, S. Krishnan wrote:
> > OK, Matt,
> > 
> > Looks like the problem is with pcap.h.  The problem is with Red Hat's
> > pcap.h install, which is in /usr/include/pcap/pcap.h, and which I kind
> > of accepted by default while building the code.  I guess your Debian
> > install is elsewhere.  The rtdump.c headers look for pcap.h as
> > "#include <pcap.h>", and so look for it in only the standard places.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I have so far built and tested both rpcap and rtdump on
> > Red Hat systems only.
> > 
> > Could you please open rtdump.c and replace the "#include <pcap.h>" line
> > with something like "#include "/usr/local/include/pcap.h", or whatever
> > is appropriate for your pcap install, and see if that fixes things?
> > 
> > In any case, the entire autoconf pcap header detection thing in both
> > rpcap and rtdump is broken, and I will look into fixing it this week
> > itself.  I will mail as soon as I get a proper fix.
> > 
> > Please let me know if this kludge works.
> 
> 
> Failed again. So I'm starting from scratch, and documenting my steps...
> 
> - run 'apt-get remove libpcap-dev' (to ensure debian's not trying to
>  	make us crazy...) - it wasn't installed...
> - remove all rpcap stuff from /usr/local/*
> - enter pcap source and run 'make uninstall'
> - verify pcap removal, then 'make install'
> - untar fresh copies of rpcap and rtdump trees
> - enter rpcap tree
> - edit rpcap_client.c - uncomment '#include
>  	</usr/local/include/pcap.h>', and comment the if block of pcap
>  	includes below that
> - modify rpcap.c so it reads the same way (by removing the if block)
> - define have_net_bpf_h in config.h after running ./configure (tried to 
> 	find where it does this, but couldn't, so hacked ;-) )
> - run 'make' followed by 'make install'. all looks good.
> - enter rtdump tree
> - modify '#include <pcap.h>' to read 
> 	'#include "/usr/local/include/pcap.h"'
> - run './configure'. apart from not finding 'local' rpcap, all is well.
> 	it seems that's normal anyways...
> - run 'make'. bang. same failure again.
> - edit Makefile - added an '-I/usr/local/include' to INCLS and added 
> 	an '-L/usr/local/lib' to LDFLAGS.
> - run 'make clean', followed by another 'make', and another failure :-/
> 
> Sorry I'm no better with my software building skills ;-)
> 
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