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.

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