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Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] errors compiling without capture support
From: Guy Harris <gharris () sonic ! net>
Date: 2005-01-27 11:16:00
Message-ID: 41F8CD70.8090408 () sonic ! net
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Mark Sholund wrote:
> I support some users who require Ethereal to be run from a shared
> location on a Solaris server. In order to do this, I must compile
> Ethereal directly from the source. Those that I support are not
> allowed/don't need to capture packets, only be able to read them, so I
> compile with the flag --without-pcap.
As Luis Ontanon noted, that doesn't necessarily prevent those users from
capturing packets - they could use snoop, or could compile libpcap and
tcpdump, or could even compile libpcap and Ethereal.
> In 0.10.7 and 0.10.9, I have
> encountered problems where there is code that should be inside of
> '#ifdef HAVE_LIBPCAP' blocks. In 0.10.9, the lines that I find these
> problems in are
>
> gtk/main.c: 1651 capture_opts->capture_child = FALSE;
> gtk/main.c: 2409 font_init(capture_opts->capture_child);
I've checked in a fix for those.
> I assume that my case is different from the majority of cases where
> Ethereal is used, i.e. most people want capture support, so this might
> not be something that is tested prior to release.
Yes.
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