Re: pkg/51970: Ethernet (libpcap) support not compiled in

[Hans Rosenfeld <hans%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51970; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hans Rosenfeld <hans%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: Rin Okuyama <rokuyama%rk.phys.keio.ac.jp@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/51970: Ethernet (libpcap) support not compiled in
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:41:02 +0100

 I've tested that patch on OmniOS, and with those changes the simh build
 will neither detect pcap for networking nor SDL or pcre. As it's
 currently in CVS it will build correctly except for SDL_ttf.
 
 Are you sure that this patch really works on NetBSD? That is, it
 actually detects and uses all the libraries it is supposed to? Can you
 send me the output of the first build step, where the makefile prints
 what it detected and what it will build?
 
 
 Hans
 
 
 
 On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:05:51PM +0900, Rin Okuyama wrote:
 > On 2017/02/16 8:05, coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost wrote:
 > >  Hmm, on my end it tries to open /dev/bpf and complains about
 > >  permissions - does it really require root? seems excessive.
 > 
 > It requires the read and write permissions of /dev/bpf when it uses
 > the Berkeley packet filter... Maya, I must say, please do not commit
 > anything you cannot test by yourself (although I really appreciate
 > your contributions to NetBSD).
 > 
 > Anyway, It seems that environment variables INCLUDES and LIBRARIES
 > confuse simh to fail to detect what libraries we have. By reverting
 > partially Makefile r1.44 (and r1.45), I obtained binaries with
 > working network support on NetBSD. But these environment variables
 > are necessary for other platforms? Hans, how do you think about it?
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > rin
 
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