Re: [tcpdump-workers] [libpcap] fix typo on manpage install (#320)

2013-09-24 Thread Michal Sekletar
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:41:45PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > > On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > > > But it means that anyone who checks out code from git is foobar if they can > > not get the *correct* version of autoconf installed to generate the files. > > So, if it'

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [libpcap] fix typo on manpage install (#320)

2013-09-24 Thread Michael Richardson
Michal Sekletar wrote: > But is this gonna work in the long run? If there are issues with build > system which are not possible to workaround and prevent us from using > new versions of There is very little skew in what tcpdump needs from a system. The question is really: do we need

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [libpcap] fix typo on manpage install (#320)

2013-09-24 Thread Guy Harris
On Sep 24, 2013, at 6:44 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > We can support very old systems today, although some of them get little > testing. Upgrading tcpdump from source code is on a really old system > (that can not be replaced...) in order to diagnose what went wrong is a > common occurance.