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[mohan34u]

This is my first Pet packages. If something went wrong please correct me.

[jcoder24]

mohan34u

Packages that require libpcap looks for the share object version (eg libpcap.so.0.9.. Unfortunately the usual ./configure , make , make install when performed on the libpcap source creates a static library (libpcap.a).

To generate the share library run the following command after running make install
gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libpcap.so.0 -o libpcap.so.0.9.8 *.o

you can then reduce the size with "strip" as follows and include it in your package
strip --strip-unneeded libpcap.so.0.9.8

This always use to drive me crazy until I Googled it and came upon this page https://svn.ntop.org/trac/wiki/FC4

[mohan34u]

Jcoder,

Thanks for your kind information.. I will follow these commands when I compile tcpdump for the next time..

[jcoder24]

Your tcpdump package appears to be compiled with libpcap built in so it wouldn't need the shared version.

However, for programs like wireshark, dynamips and others these will not compile without a shared version. That's why I had to compile it as indicated above after downloading your package and not finding libpcap.so.0.9.8.

You can leave tcpdump as is but I'd recommed repackaging libpcap.

[mohan34u]

Thanks jcoder,

I updated the libpcap-0.9.8.pet with your suggession.