Re: TCPDUMP 4.0.1rc1 and LIBPCAP 1.0.1rc1 available for testing

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Dec 21, 2008, at 1:25 AM, Gianluca Varenni wrote:

> When I run it, I get
>
> ./a.out: error while loading shared libraries: libpcap.so.1: cannot  
> open shared  object file: No such file or directory
>
> I'm not an expert about linux shared objects, maybe I'm doing  
> something wrong.

I'm not, either, but, given that 1.0[.x] has a different major version  
number from 0.9.x (and 0.8.x and 0.7.x and so on), you might have to  
run ldconfig to add the new shared library to the shared library cache  
list (some UN*X run-time linkers have such a cache list, others don't).

> Is it my fault or something within the installation of the libpcap  
> shared object?

I'm not sure whether the convention is that a library's Makefile (or  
libtool, if the library uses libtool - we don't) should, on platforms  
that have ldconfig, run ldconfig after installing the library, so I  
don't know whether we should be doing that or not.
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