Re: [tcpdump-workers] [tcpdump-security] [libpcap] Problem with version 1.9.0

2018-07-24 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Denis, Am 24.07.2018 um 10:51 schrieb Denis Ovsienko : > You had this exact discussion 2 weeks ago, didn't you? For the avoidance of > doubt, this thread isn't about voting. Ah right, it did feel like some kind of deja vu but I falsely remembered that to be on a different mailing list. Sorr

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [tcpdump-security] [libpcap] Problem with version 1.9.0

2018-07-24 Thread Denis Ovsienko
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 21:33:00 +0100 Dagobert Michelsen wrote > Hi Jan, > > Am 23.07.2018 um 22:04 schrieb Jan Stary : > > > > From both a sysadmin and user perspective, I find the GNU autotools > > amd CMake a major annoyance. Would you please consider doing what e.g. > > http

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [tcpdump-security] [libpcap] Problem with version 1.9.0

2018-07-23 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 23 13:30:55, g...@alum.mit.edu wrote: > On Jul 23, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > > > From both a sysadmin and user perspective, I find the GNU autotools > > amd CMake a major annoyance. Would you please consider doing what e.g. > > http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/configure does?

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [tcpdump-security] [libpcap] Problem with version 1.9.0

2018-07-23 Thread Guy Harris
On Jul 23, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > From both a sysadmin and user perspective, I find the GNU autotools > amd CMake a major annoyance. Would you please consider doing what e.g. > http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/configure does? What advantage would it give us that would make it wo

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [tcpdump-security] [libpcap] Problem with version 1.9.0

2018-07-23 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Jan, Am 23.07.2018 um 22:04 schrieb Jan Stary : > > From both a sysadmin and user perspective, I find the GNU autotools > amd CMake a major annoyance. Would you please consider doing what e.g. > http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/configure does? > > A simple, hand written shell script, with

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [tcpdump-security] [libpcap] Problem with version 1.9.0

2018-07-23 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 23 18:38:17, g...@greenie.muc.de wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 09:35:30AM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > > Let's switch over to cmake as our official mechanism now... i.e. have > > travis, etc. use it in preference to configure. > > From a sysadmin perspective, I find cmake

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [tcpdump-security] [libpcap] Problem with version 1.9.0

2018-07-23 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi, Am 23.07.2018 um 19:11 schrieb Ray Bellis : > On 23/07/2018 17:38, Gert Doering wrote: >> I do understand that this is not for me to decide and that you're >> fully free to ignore me, but I still wanted to say it so nobody can >> say afterwards "hey, we announced this on the list and nobody sp

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [tcpdump-security] [libpcap] Problem with version 1.9.0

2018-07-23 Thread Ray Bellis
On 23/07/2018 17:38, Gert Doering wrote: > I do understand that this is not for me to decide and that you're > fully free to ignore me, but I still wanted to say it so nobody can > say afterwards "hey, we announced this on the list and nobody spoke > up". FWIW, I loath CMake too. :p Ray

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [tcpdump-security] [libpcap] Problem with version 1.9.0

2018-07-23 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 09:35:30AM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > Let's switch over to cmake as our official mechanism now... i.e. have > travis, etc. use it in preference to configure. From a sysadmin perspective, I find cmake to be a major annoyance (because it usually does not exist on

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [tcpdump-security] [libpcap] Problem with version 1.9.0

2018-07-23 Thread Michael Richardson
Guy Harris via tcpdump-security wrote: >>> Need autoreconf. > I've updated libpcap-release-howto.md, in the >g...@bpf.tcpdump.org:maintainer-notes repository, to include the >autoreconf step (and to clean up the formatting, to work as standard >Markdown, as well as replacing t