[HECnet] Trying to build SIMH from git (on OpenIndiana)

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On 19 Mar 2013, at 17:31, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
wrote:
It's pretty standard, actually.   It's just not the way GCC does it.

I'm used to either Unices that don't differentiate that way, or
predate C++. ;)

And now my issues are only with libpcap...Does solaris 10 bundle its
own?
If so, where's it located?

Not that I'm aware of.   And if it doesn't, that'd be refreshing,
because Sun got into a really bad habit of bundling
non-operating-system components with the operating system, all very
outdated and compiled to be put in weird places in the filesystem.

Looks like I just need to find the magic version then. 1.2.1 and one version
prior seemed to have issues.

What issues have you observed?

I ask since, in general, most platforms today ship with a libpcap which meet simh's requirements.   They tend to all ship with libpcap as a shared library.   Some don't package pcap.h and thus you may need to install some libpcap development package or at worst build the package from tcpdump.org.   Enough folks have messed up something about the build, configuration or install of libpcap from www.tcpdump.org that we're recommending the OS vendor supplied components first.

Thanks.

- Mark