> From: Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu>

>On Feb 15, 2014, at 1:21 PM, Michael Richardson <m...@sandelman.ca> wrote:
>
>> The ESP tests are failing because you haven't got libssl-dev.
>
>Yes - some tests fail if the full set of support libraries weren't available 
>when tcpdump was built.
>
>Perhaps we want to suppress some tests if we don't have the appropriate 
>libraries - or have the tests compare against the results of a tcpdump built 
>without the library or libraries in question rather than the results of one 
>built with them.


We could maybe add a text in INSTALL file, like:

diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 132e118..4dc61d3 100644
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ You will need an ANSI C compiler to build tcpdump. The configure
 will abort if your compiler is not ANSI compliant. If this happens, use
 the generally available GNU C compiler (GCC).
 
+To build with crypto support, you need SSL library (libssl-dev).
+If you don't have this library, you will have some "make check" errors.
+
 After libpcap has been built (either install it with "make install" or
 make sure both the libpcap and tcpdump source trees are in the same
 directory), run ./configure (a shell script).  "configure" will


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