dsb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I was installing a bunch of Net modules on my box at home last nite. And, on several occasions when I was running the Makefile.pl script to check things. I got a warning that '-lpcap' was not found. The warning expressed that this probably didn't matter. The first time it happened I continued but the install failed.

So, my question is, what is this '-lpcap' that is apparently missing and where can I get it? - kel -

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Re: -lpcap
by t0mas (Priest) on Feb 08, 2001 at 20:40 UTC
    -lpcap is a library for capturing network packets.

    You can get the sources from LBNL's Network Research Group

    If you're on windows, you can get a port here

    /brother t0mas
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Re: -lpcap
by zigster (Hermit) on Feb 08, 2001 at 20:42 UTC
    Sounds like libpcap a c library for packet filtering try installing that see how you go.
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    Zigster
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