Bug 624295

Summary:	No libpcap-devel-static
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nigel Horne <njh>
Component:	libpcap	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Nigel Horne 2010-08-15 19:36:24 UTC

Description of problem:
There is no libpcap-devel-static package, so it is not possible to use mudflap to diagnose programs built using libpcap, since you should use "-static" with "-fmudflap".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
14:1.0.0-5.20091201git117cb5.fc13

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  rpm -qa | fgrep libpcap-devel-static
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Actual results:
Nothing

Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2010-08-16 08:19:02 UTC

Static libraries should be included only in exceptional circumstances, please see

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries

I don't think including a static libpcap only for debugging purposes would meet the guideline.

Comment 2 Nigel Horne 2010-08-16 08:32:32 UTC

Please would you explain to me how I can run mudflap on my program which uses libpcap?

Comment 3 Miroslav Lichvar 2010-08-16 08:41:11 UTC

Download libpcap srpm, compile the sources and use libpcap.a as needed.

Comment 4 Nigel Horne 2010-08-16 08:45:22 UTC

Ouch :-(