On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:22:09AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > > It appears that linking laptop-net with libcap0.8 fixes the issue. > > Also, note that on the upstream pcap homepage, 0.8 is mentioned to > > fix some 64 bit issue[1]:
> > <quote> > > LIBPCAP 0.8.3 > > LIBPCAP version 0.8.3 has been released as of March 30, 2004. 0.8.3 > > fixes a minor problem with gencode.c on 64-bit architectures. It > > also carries the correct version numbers. > > </quote> > I attached a patch which implements the change I proposed and fixes > the issue I encountered (this is a patch against laptop-net 2.26-7.1). > Since the 0.8 version added some changes I have checked the following: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/usr/src/laptop-net/laptop-net-2.26 $ grep -R -E > "(pcap_next_ex|pcap_breakloop|pcap_dump_flush|pcap_list_datalinks|pcap_set_datalink|pcap_lib_version|pcap_datalink_val_to_name|pcap_datalink_name_to_val)" > * Yet there are 51 other packages on amd64 which depend on libpcap0.7. If libpcap0.7 is broken, it should be fixed; moving laptop-net to libpcap0.8 doesn't help the rest of the packages. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/