Libpcap

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libpcap - A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture

1 Rating
2 How to build libpcap-0.9.4 on Solaris Express
3 Directory paths that libpcap installs to
4 Other 3rd party software libpcap requires

Rating

3 points (out of 4)

Rating scheme: 4 points means the source builds seamlessly on Solaris Express (OpenSolaris). Points are subtracted as follows:

Minus 1 if the source doesn't come with an automated way to localize the build (e.g. configure)
Minus 1 if the source won't compile with Sun's cc (this usually means the code is gcc-centric)
Minus 1 if a minor patch is required, or
Minus 2 if a major patch(es) is required

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How to build libpcap-0.9.4 on Solaris Express

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Build Environment (platform, compiler, tools, PATH, ld)

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Configure and compile steps (on x86 hardware)

/usr/bin/gzip -dc libpcap-0.9.4.tar.gz | /usr/sfw/bin/gtar xf -

cd libpcap-0.9.4

export CFLAGS="-i -xO4 -xspace -xstrconst -xpentium -mr"
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-zignore -Wl,-zcombreloc -Wl,-Bdirect"

# Must use GNU ld, which is called gld on OpenSolaris and lives
# in /usr/sfw/bin. Setting LD=/usr/sfw/bin/gld doesn't work
# because this source's configure ignores $LD. So I've hacked
# Makefile.in on-the-fly thusly:

perl -i.orig -lpe 's/^\tld/\tgld/ if $. == 115' Makefile.in

./configure --prefix=/usr  \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man

make
make shared

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