Small configure issue with argus 3.0.8

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Jesse,
Thanks for pointing out that the links pointed to 3.0.6 versions in error.  Fixed that !!!
Cool, so its a little bit of a false alarm, but still an issue, so we'll try to document
it, offer your workaround and fix it a little later.

So all is well ??? The Carolina's treating you well ??
Hope all is indeed most excellent,

Carter

On Sep 15, 2014, at 9:13 PM, Jesse Bowling <jessebowling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Carter,
> 
> Yes I believe it’s the latest, at least it’s the latest version I pulled off of /dev...Looking at http://qosient.com/argus/downloads.shtml It looks like those links go to version 3.0.6 for some reason...
> 
> Also, this may be a false alarm...I now believe that previously I simply issued “./configure” and that was sufficient to find the library...Indeed, compiling with just a bare configure works and ldd shows the correct library in /usr/local/lib being used...I think I was thrown off by the configure message "checking for local pcap library... not found” making me think my library wasn’t found...But it was!
> 
> So, if I specify the library path, compilation fails on linking, if I specify both paths on the configure line, everything compiles...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jesse
> 
> 
> On Sep 15, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Jesse,
>> Is this with the now stable version of 3.0.8 ???
>> 
>> I’m not sure what may have changed either, but with the
>> packaging support that we put in, there could have been a
>> change in the configure.ac file ???
>> 
>> Is PF_RING putting things in the same place that libpcap is installing???
>> Could be their issue if they changed something ??  
>> 
>> How does it fail ???  Just complains that it can’t find a libpcap ???
>> 
>> Does the workaround work ???
>> 
>> I’ll want to document your workaround, and then make some changes for
>> the eventual patch version.
>> 
>> Sorry for any inconvenience !!!!
>> 
>> Carter
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 14, 2014, at 8:58 PM, Jesse Bowling <jessebowling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I use a custom libpcap library (PF_RING) which normally installs the library in /usr/local/lib, and a header file (pcap.h) in /usr/local/include. In the past I’ve had no issues compiling argus against this library. I recently found that now I do have an issue compiling, specifically in that configure is unable to find the pcap.h file. Looking in the configure script starting around line 8480, I see that the --with-libpcap option checks for both the libpcap.a file AND the pcap.h file in the same directory. My workaround is to specify both directories:
>>> 
>>> ./configure --with-libpcap=/usr/local/lib --with-libpcap=/usr/local/include
>>> 
>>> I suspect either a specific option for the includes directory (such as --with-libpcap-includes) or to check both $dir and $dir/../include for this option. Not sure what changed from previous versions!
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Jesse
>> 
> 

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