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diff --git a/README.macos b/README.macos index a7b6c2e4cd..0c069b8c10 100644 --- a/README.macos +++ b/README.macos @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: README.macos,v 1.2 2004/03/16 18:18:48 guy Exp $ +$Id: README.macos,v 1.3 2004/03/21 19:04:44 jmayer Exp $ This file tries to help building Ethereal for Mac OS X (Ethereal does not work on earlier versions of Mac OS). @@ -23,3 +23,16 @@ which is known to work in this constellation: and the corresponding dependencies. In case you also have gtk1 installed, you will need to run configure with the "--enable-gtk2" argument. +Another problem are compile errors in the wiretap directory like the +following: +pcap-util.c: In function `get_interface_list_findalldevs': +pcap-util.c:195: error: `pcap_if_t' undeclared (first use in this function) + +On first sight, it seems that Mac OS X 10.3.2 ships with a weird version of +libpcap that includes pcap_findalldevs, but no definition for pcap_if_t. +As it turns out, this isn't true. 10.3.2 ships with an 0.6[.x]-derived +libpcap that doesn't include "pcap_findalldevs()". The problem is caused +by a Security Update - it updates the libpcap dylib to 0.8.1, but doesn't +update the header files (or the man page - and also doesn't update the +tcpdump man page to 3.8.1). As a workaround, install pcap.h, pcap-bpf.h +and pcap-stdinc.h from libpcap 0.8.1 in "/usr/include". |