Re: ntop and libpcap

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Marcos Mezo <mmezo@selexco.net> writes:

> As a followup to my former mail
>
> If I try to build ntop from the sources against the libpcap0.7-dev I get
> the same error.
>
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a(pcap-linux.o): relocation
> R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with
> -fPIC
>
> How should I build ntop??
>
> Marcos
> -- 
> Marcos Mezo <mmezo@selexco.net>

You have to fix libpcap, recompile it with -fPIC.

Most likely the configure script in libpcap is just buggy and needs to
be updated but it could be something else too causing the -fPIC to be
missing.

MfG
        Goswin