On 10/10/2011 02:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/10/2011 01:41 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> You should have just done a "yum install libpcap-devel" to get libpcap. >> There's no need to install from a tarball--libpcap has been in Fedora's >> repos for a LONG time. > > And, AIUI, yum only checks its own database to see what's installed, > which is why it didn't know about it being there.
Yes it does, but that wasn't the issue. There are other things that most RPMs (devel RPMs that is) do, such as update pkg-info databases, cause ldconfig updates and other goodies that a lot of "make install"s from tarballs don't do. The pkg-config bit is important...that database is what many "./configure" scripts look at to see if the needed library is there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ri...@nerd.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - The Theory of Rapitivity: E=MC Hammer - - -- Glenn Marcus (via TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
