The following reply was made to PR pkg/29678; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2005.salmi.ch>
To: pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/29678: devel/libnet fails to build: no low level packet interface
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:08:46 +0100

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 The problem is that on current it's /dev/bpf, and configure checks for
 /dev/bpf0. The attached patch should fix the problem.
 
 Cheers, Jukka
 
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 --- configure.orig	1999-10-27 20:47:27.000000000 +0200
 +++ configure	2005-03-12 16:04:13.000000000 +0100
 @@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@
  echo $ac_n "checking low-level packet interface type""... $ac_c" 1>&6
  echo "configure:1211: checking low-level packet interface type" >&5
  
 -if test -r /dev/bpf0 ; then
 +if test -r /dev/bpf0 -o -r /dev/bpf ; then
      LL_INT_TYPE=bpf
      echo "$ac_t""found bpf" 1>&6
  elif test -r /usr/include/net/pfilt.h ; then
 @@ -1340,7 +1340,7 @@
  
  
      fi
 -elif test -c /dev/bpf0 ; then           # check again in case not readable
 +elif test -c /dev/bpf0 -o -c /dev/bpf ; then # check again in case not readable
      LL_INT_TYPE=bpf
      echo "$ac_t""found bpf" 1>&6
  elif test -c /dev/enet ; then           # check again in case not readable
 
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