[Discuss] cross-compiling tcpdump

[Gordon Marx]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:48 PM, R. Luoma <nobluspam5476 at penguinmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to crosscompile tcpdump.
> I seem to need libpcap
> but, when trying to configure,
> I get --
>
>  configure: error: pcap type not determined when cross-compiling; use --with-pcap=...

You need libpcap for your target platform, and presumably you use
with-pcap to tell configure where libpcap for the target platform
lives.

Gordon