Michael Tuexen wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>>
>> Guy Harris wrote:
>>> bitmus DA wrote:
>>>
>>>> i waited and downloaded version 0.99.8
>>>> then configured it --without-pcap and compiled. but error still here
>>> That's another bug, not fixed in 0.99.8, but fixed in the current  
>>> SVN,
>>> so that *particular* fix should be in the next release.
>>>
>>> For better or worse, most developers don't build without libpcap, and
>>> the buildbots don't build without libpcap, so build problems when
>>> building without libpcap don't tend to get discovered and fixed.
>>>
>>> Obviously, we don't want all the buildbots building *only* without  
>>> libpcap.
>>>
>>> We could perhaps do all builds first with, and then without,  
>>> libpcap -
>>> or first without, and then with, libpcap, with post-build tests  
>>> done on
>>> the versions with libpcap - although that would slow the buildbots  
>>> down
>>> somewhat.
>>>
>>> The Solaris buildbot appears to have taken about 4 3/4 minutes to run
>>> the configure script, and about 1 hour 38 minutes to do the build,
>>> unless I'm missing something, so it'd add about 1 3/4 hours to the
>>> Solaris build procedure to do both builds.
>>>
>>> However, if we *only* do it on, say, the OS X buildbot, it shouldn't
>>> slow things down too much (about 15 minutes), and would probably  
>>> catch
>>> most if not all of the problems with non-pcap builds.
>> Funny, I was going to suggest that one of the buildbots build with  
>> both
>> GTK2 and GTK1 1 for the same reason.  I agree that only one need do  
>> it,
>> though.
>>
> So we need with-libpcap and without, with gtk1 or gtk2?
> So the Mac OS X buildbot could build
> - gtk2 without libpcap
> - gtk1 with libpap
> (I'm not sure if gtk1 without libpcap makes much sense)...

Yeah, that would cover most of the issues I think.
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