Re: building libpcap without usb support

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>]

Romain Francoise <romain () orebokech com> wrote:
    >> <linux/usbdevice_fs.h> is a kernel header; does USB sniffing require
    >> libusb-dev at all?

    > Nope. libusb is only required for canusb support.

Ah, that's a bit confusing.

There is a --disable-canusb, I think, so I'll try building libpcap
with that option, which ought to eliminate needing to link with -lusb.
I wonder if canusb sniffing is sufficiently rare, and forcing people
to have libusb-dev around is sufficiently annoying that we should
turn that off by default.

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