[Simh] What version of PCAP was used for build the current release of SIMH?

[David Holland]

I used libpcap-current.tar.gz off the tcpdump.org page...   0.8.3 is
missing just the function you mention.

Of course my "current" was dated 8/30/2004, so I've no idea what
today's "current" would do.

David


On 4/28/05, Gregg C Levine <hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> I am having my usual share of problems today, in trying to build SIMH
> 3.3-2 for Linux. For the usual reasons I turned on the networking
> option, by using the same flag as for when the Windows build tools are
> used. It proceeds normally until it gets to the PDP11 code with
> regards to the networking options. Here's a script output which
> explains it in greater detail:
> Script started on Wed 27 Apr 2005 11:38:20 PM EDT
> root at who3:/usr/local/simh# make -f makefile USE_NETWORK=1gcc -std=c99
> -O2 -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -g -lm -D_GNU_SOURCE -I . PDP11/pdp11_fp.c
> PDP11/pdp11_cpu.c PDP11/pdp11_dz.c PDP11/pdp11_cis.c PDP11/pdp11_lp.c
> PDP11/pdp11_rk.c PDP11/pdp11_rl.c PDP11/pdp11_rp.c PDP11/pdp11_rx.c
> PDP11/pdp11_stddev.c PDP11/pdp11_sys.c PDP11/pdp11_tc.c
> PDP11/pdp11_tm.c PDP11/pdp11_ts.c PDP11/pdp11_io.c PDP11/pdp11_rq.c
> PDP11/pdp11_tq.c PDP11/pdp11_pclk.c PDP11/pdp11_ry.c PDP11/pdp11_pt.c
> PDP11/pdp11_hk.c PDP11/pdp11_xq.c PDP11/pdp11_xu.c PDP11/pdp11_vh.c
> PDP11/pdp11_rh.c PDP11/pdp11_tu.c PDP11/pdp11_cpumod.c scp.c
> sim_console.c sim_fio.c sim_timer.c sim_sock.c sim_tmxr.c sim_ether.c
> sim_tape.c -DVM_PDP11 -I PDP11/ -DUSE_NETWORK -isystem
> /usr/local/include /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a -o BIN/pdp11 sim_ether.c:
> In function `eth_write':sim_ether.c:768: warning: implicit declaration
> of function `pcap_sendpacket'/tmp/ccNkGRJa.o(.text+0xcf3): In function
> `eth_write':/usr/local/simh/sim_ether.c:768: undefined reference to
> `pcap_sendpacket'collect2: ld returned 1 exit statusmake: ***
> [BIN/pdp11] Error 1root at who3:/usr/local/simh# exit
> Script done on Wed 27 Apr 2005 11:46:38 PM EDT
> 
> As you can see the error surfaced when the program discovered it
> couldn't find something inside the PCAP library. I use the Slackware
> distribution. According to the screens concerning the TCPDUMP package,
> the version is 0.8.3 for PCAP.  Oh, and rather then edit the make
> file, I chose to copy over the relevant library and header files to
> their relevant locations.
> 
> Is my question answered inside the text files that come with the SIMH
> programs zip file? In any case my question, once an answer is
> available should be installed into a FAQ entry.
> -------------------
> Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
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