[Simh] simh under slackware64

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

Thanks for that detailed explanation Michael.

>From my cross platform testing, all current (for SEVERAL YEARS NOW) Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and other *nix systems which I've looked at have OS supplied libpcap versions which have the needed features for simh networking to work.  Since the host provided libpcap-devel packages are easier to install correctly they are the preferred package useful for building the new simh simulators with networking support.

>From my experience, installing libpcap-dev is sufficient since it is always described as depending on libpcap so you'll get both anyway.

By the way, simh's Ethernet support does display the libpcap version available on the host whenever you first attach a network device.


-          Mark
From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Michael Bloom
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:36 AM
To: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] simh under slackware64

While the name of the libpcap package is  libpcap0.8 on linux systems (at the very least on debian based ones), the code it's built from is a later version (currently 1.1.1).

The command "apt-get source libpcap0.8"  yields a tar of the original libpcap-1.1.1 source, a tar of debian changes, and a directory named libpcap-1.1.1/ containing the source with the debian changes applied.

I think that the package will probably always be called libpcap0.8, and should be perfectly safe for use with programs that require at least libpcap version 0.9.

On Tue Feb 21 17:20:48 EST 2012, Sergey Oboguev oboguev at yahoo.com <mailto:simh%40trailing-edge.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BSimh%5D%20simh%20under%20slackware64&In-Reply-To=%3C1329862848.55073.YahooMailRC%40web181115.mail.ne1.yahoo.com%3E> wrote:

> Try using apt-get or Synaptic manager to install libpcap{version} and libpcap-dev/libpcap{version}-dev.
> Recent (may be no longer the latest as of now) {version} for 64-bit linux was 0.8.


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