configure Problem with Debian/GNU Linux and 2.0.6

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Dietmar,
   So I looked into it a bit.  The current ./configure.in and
./aclocal.m4 files have changed, a bit more than I remembered,
but they work without a hitch on RH, and the *BSD's.

   Some of the changes are due to improvements in autoconf(),
especially the inclusion of macros for AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
support.  We wrote our own a year or so ago.  The new autoconf()
macros broke our macros, so I took them out.

   The ./configure that is distributed is one built on a new
RH Enterprise 3 WS release.  I can't imagine that that would
be a problem, but just in case,  what I can suggest is that you
run autoconf in the parent directory in order to generate a
new Debian specific ./configure, and then check to see if that
version of ./configure doesn't run better.


Carter




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
[mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Carter Bullard
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 8:31 AM
To: 'Dietmar Goldbeck'; argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: RE: configure Problem with Debian/GNU Linux and 2.0.6

Hey Dietmar,
When the configure script detects that a system pcap
library is going to be used, it looks in these directories
for pcap.h:

   /usr/local/include/pcap /usr/include /usr/include/pcap

so the question is, are you sure that pcap.h is in
one of these directories?

The code for doing this is in ./aclocal.m4, line 548.
If you make a modifications, you will need to run
autoconf, in order to generate a new ./configure
script.

Please send mail soon if you're still having problems.

Carter




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
[mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Dietmar Goldbeck
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:43 AM
To: argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: configure Problem with Debian/GNU Linux and 2.0.6


  Hello,

i cannot cnfigure the new Argus release under Debian/testing:

checking for local pcap library... no
checking for main in -lpcap... yes
yes -lpcap
checking for pcap.h... no
configure: error: cannot find pcap.h
./configure: line 5430: exit: see: numeric argument required
./configure: line 5430: exit: see: numeric argument required

The pcap library is installed (Debian package, so pcap.h is under
/usr/include) and i can compile argus-2.0.6 beta 14 without a problem.

How can i debug this further?

  Ciao
    Dietmar

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