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Porting and Archive Centre site.
Warn in the very beginning of that file that libpcap may not work very
well without patches. Give patches to libpcap for:
vanilla LBL libpcap 0.4
vanilla tcpdump.org libpcap 0.5
libpcap 0.4 from the HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre (which is
the only version that includes configure-script changes to work
with HP's C compiler as well as GCC)
and put them in files separate from "README.hpux" (to make it easier for
users to apply the patches).
Make those versions of the patch give a slightly different error message
if libpcap fails to find the PPA for the device, to make it easier to
figure out if the user reporting a problem with HP-UX capture has a
patched version of libpcap or not (so that we know whether the problem
may just be that they're using an unmodified libpcap, or if they're
running a patched version and that patch needs more work, e.g. to look
at devices other than just "/dev/dlpi").
Give information on how to find "patch", warn that probably only the
HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre version will work with the HP C
compiler, warn that applying a version of the patch other than the one
for the particular version of libpcap you've downloaded will probably
not work, and warn that you need to download source to libpcap in order
to do any of this in the first place.
(The current libpcap CVS tree at tcpdump.org has this patch in it, so
the next release of libpcap from tcpdump.org should have it; hopefully
the HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre will switch to that version when it
comes out, and people will just be able to push a few buttons to get an
Ethereal that works on HP-UX.)
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