Re: make releasetar on libpcap

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>]

> > > > > "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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