Re: Update configure for libpcap

[Ali Abdulkadir <autostart.ini () gmail com>]

> On Jul 11, 2018, at 2:22 PM, Petr Vorel <pvorel () suse cz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Libpcap's configure script is outdated.
> Although I'd prefer remove configure from git and ask user to run autoconf
> manually (+ update travis and coverity to run it, of course),
That's the first item on their TODO

> but maybe you have
> some reason for it (problematic autotools instalation on windows?),
Nope. Although it wouldn't be super helpful if they were to remove/update the ANSI compiler test. That would make 
libpcap at least *compile* on windows with the autotools. I think tcpdump's configure script removed that test at some 
point.

Linking (shared) is currently not possible though. Fixing that is more complicated as libpcap's Makefiles are mostly 
handcrafted (don't use e.g. automake which would handle OS specific things such as the setting proper file extensions).

> so I just
> update it in this pull request:
> https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/pull/730
>
> And sorry, you might prefer I include all the info in pull request and don't
> write it here. In this case let me know.
>
> Kind regards,
> Petr
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