Re: libpcap min version for Wireshark 3.0?

[Anders Broman <a.broman58 () gmail com>]

Den tors 26 apr. 2018 19:08Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> skrev:

> On Apr 26, 2018, at 7:56 AM, Anders Broman <a.broman58 () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > If I remember correctly the discussion was regarding some arkaic version
> (0.9.x) used on SuSE 11. For which we did some changes in autotools. Not
> sure if we do for cmake. Just thought we could request something with the
> same time line in the distributions as the other restrictions we impose
> like glib 2.32.
>
> If we require libpcap 1.0 and later, we can rely on pcap_create()
> existing, which would let us simplify some code.  However, if SuSE 11 still
> provides an 0.9 release, that'd mean we wouldn't allow building on SuSE 11.
>
> I'm not sure whether being able to assume the availability of other
> routines as a result of requiring a later release would be worth it.

SuSE 11 is out due to other dependencies so require 1.0 would be OK and
perhaps desired then.
Regards
Anders

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