Re: TCPDUMP 4.0.1rc1 and LIBPCAP 1.0.1rc1

[Stephen Donnelly <stephen () endace com>]

The default install path is probably /usr/local, have you checked
if /usr/local/lib is in your library path?

See /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

Stephen.

On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 01:25 -0800, Gianluca Varenni wrote:
> I have some problems using the shared version of libpcap.
>
> Environment: fresh installation of a Debian 4.0r5 x86
>
> I compiled the 1.0.1rc1 sources with
>
> make shared;make install;make install-shared
>
> (BTW, you need to run both "install" and "install-shared" because the latter 
> doesn't install the include files)
>
> After that I successfully compiled the following test app:
>
> ----
> #include "pcap.h"
>
> int main()
> {
>  pcap_if_t *alldevs;
>  pcap_if_t *d;
>  char errbuf[PCAP_ERRBUF_SIZE+1];
>
>  /* Retrieve the device list */
>  if(pcap_findalldevs(&alldevs, errbuf) == -1)
>  {
>   fprintf(stderr,"Error in pcap_findalldevs: %s\n", errbuf);
>   return -1;
>  }
>
>  /* Free the device list */
>  pcap_freealldevs(alldevs);
>
>  return 1;
> }
> ----
>
> with "gcc test.c -lpcap"
>
> 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.
> Is it my fault or something within the installation of the libpcap shared 
> object?
>
> Thanks
> GV
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ken Bantoft" <ken () netfunctional ca>
> To: <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:14 PM
> Subject: [tcpdump-workers] TCPDUMP 4.0.1rc1 and LIBPCAP 1.0.1rc1 available 
> for testing
>
>
> > Hi -workers,
> >
> > http://www.tcpdump.org/beta/  has the Release Candidates - they  contain 
> > everything including the dlpisubs.c patch from today.
> >
> > Please give them a test run if you can - provided no bugs, I'm  planning 
> > to release them for Monday, Dec 8th.
> >
> >
> > Ken
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