Re: pypcap-1.1 compilation problems

[Fredrik Pettai <pettai%nordu.net@localhost>]

On Feb 14, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Fredrik Pettai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody with knowledge of libpcap in NetBSD know how to solve the
> compilation errors with wip/pypcap ?
> At first, I thought it was a problem with the NetBSD included pcap
> headers/library, but then I run it with pkgsrc bundled libpcap version
> I still get the same errors (and 3 out of 5 tests fail).

Hi again,

Some more info regarding this. This was with python26 on NetBSD  
5.0_STABLE. Later I also tried python25 on NetBSD 4.0.1_PATCH which  
gave me the same results as below the "/////...".
Strangly, with python24 on NetBSD 4.0.1_PATCH, all tests work fine.  
(So this might be a python related problem and maybe not libpcap, as I  
suspected from the beginning.)

-bash-3.2$ make test
/usr/pkg/bin/python2.4 test.py
.....
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 5 tests in 0.001s

OK

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

-bash-4.0$ make test
/usr/pkg/bin/python2.6 test.py
EEE..
======================================================================
ERROR: test_pcap_dispatch (__main__.PcapTestCase)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 37, in test_pcap_dispatch
    p.dispatch(-1, __bad_handler)
  File "pcap.pyx", line 288, in pcap.pcap.dispatch
    callback -- function with (timestamp, pkt, *args) prototype
TypeError: exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not type

======================================================================
ERROR: test_pcap_errors (__main__.PcapTestCase)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 19, in test_pcap_errors
    print p.stats()
  File "pcap.pyx", line 325, in pcap.pcap.stats
    raise KeyboardInterrupt
TypeError: exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not type

======================================================================
ERROR: test_pcap_iter (__main__.PcapTestCase)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 9, in test_pcap_iter
    l = [ (x[0], len(x[1])) for x in pcap.pcap('test.pcap') ]
  File "pcap.pyx", line 346, in pcap.pcap.__next__
    cdef pcap_pkthdr *hdr
TypeError: exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not type

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 5 tests in 0.002s

FAILED (errors=3)
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/wip/pypcap/work/pypcap-1.1