Re: Libpcap library/headers not found...

[John Sage <jsage () finchhaven com>]

hmm..

Contrariwise, I did an:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a libpcap.a

in /usr/lib and I think that helped...

- John

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Neal Timm wrote:

> make sure /usr/local/lib is in your /etc/ld.so.conf if it is not put it in
> there and run ldconfig.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net
> [mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net]On Behalf Of Beckster
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 05:48 PM
> Cc: Snort Users
> Subject: [Snort-users] Libpcap library/headers not found...
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Trying to install snort-1.8.1 on a linux 7.1 i386.  Have installed
> libpcap from tcpdump.org tarball and also tried libpcap from the
> ee.lbl.gov site.  Libpcap.a resides in /usr/local/lib/.  Tcpdump-3.6.2
> install also fails with this:
>
> tcpdump.o(.text_0x687): undefined reference to 'bpf_dump'
> /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a(pcap-linux.o): In function 'pcap_open_live':
> pcap-linux.o(.text_0x56f): undefined reference to 'atexit'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [tcpdump] Error 1
>
> Error on snort ./configure is below.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated - I'm kinda stuck now.
>
> Regards,
> Becky


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