Re: Build and check on a big-endian system

[François-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail () yahoo com>]

> From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>

> On Feb 15, 2014, at 1:21 PM, Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca> wrote:
>
> > The ESP tests are failing because you haven't got libssl-dev.
>
> Yes - some tests fail if the full set of support libraries weren't available when tcpdump was built.
>
> Perhaps we want to suppress some tests if we don't have the appropriate libraries - or have the tests compare against 
> the results of a tcpdump built without the library or libraries in question rather than the results of one built with 
> them.


We could maybe add a text in INSTALL file, like:

diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 132e118..4dc61d3 100644
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ You will need an ANSI C compiler to build tcpdump. The configure
 will abort if your compiler is not ANSI compliant. If this happens, use
 the generally available GNU C compiler (GCC).
 
+To build with crypto support, you need SSL library (libssl-dev).
+If you don't have this library, you will have some "make check" errors.
+
 After libpcap has been built (either install it with "make install" or
 make sure both the libpcap and tcpdump source trees are in the same
 directory), run ./configure (a shell script).  "configure" will


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