On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 06:29:13PM -0400, Bryan Chapman wrote:
> I was trying working with ettercap today, and found out the only version
> 0.6.bp3
> is in the ports tree. This version is described as deprecated on the ettercap
> webpage. I downloaded the most recent version (0.7.3) and tried to install
> it.
> When I run the configure script included in I get the following output:
>
> $ ./configure --with-libpcap=/usr/src/lib/libpcap
> ...
> checking for libpcap... /usr/src/lib/libpcap
> checking for pcap_datalink_val_to_description in -lpcap... no
> configure: error: Incorrect libpcap version. libpcap >= 0.8.1 required
>
> I was told on the #openbsd irc channel that openbsd maintains its own versions
> of the libraries. Is this just due to an old library version, or am I missing
> something else?
libpcap has been updated quite a bit, but this happened post-3.9 IIRC.
Joachim
