Re: make releasetar on libpcap

[Tyson Key <tyson.key () gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca> wrote:

> > > > > > "Guy" == Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> writes:
>    Guy> The Makefile has a rule to "generate" it, so I'd see that as
>    Guy> OK.  (It also means that "make clean" would remove the symlink,
>    Guy> which is arguably the right thing for it to do.)
>
>    >> The other way is to make releasetar: depend upon bpf_filter.c, so
>    >> that the symlink is shipped, but I think we shouldn't ship the
>    >> symlink.
>
>     Guy> Or we could just get rid of the bpf/net directory entirely, and
>    Guy> move bpf_filter.c to the top-level directory; we already have
>    Guy> bpf_dump.c and bpf_image.c there.  I assume part of the
>    Guy> rationale there was to put the stuff that could go into an OS
>    Guy> kernel into a subdirectory, but we've already moved most of the
>    Guy> files out of there, and the developers of the OSes that don't
>    Guy> already have a BPF interpreter can probably figure out what
>    Guy> pieces they need and put them into the source tree
>    Guy> appropriately.
>
> Yeah, lets do this.
>
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