From: Claudio Jeker (cjekerdiehard.n-r-g.com)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2006 - 11:04:15 CDT

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On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:36:48AM -0700, Eric Ziegast wrote:
> Where do I find an bpf_filter.c in OpenBSD, or how is it generated?
> or is there better way to compile /usr/lib/libpcap*?
>
> In the latest src.tar.gz available via FTP, the file
> ./lib/libpcap/Makefile lists:
>
> SRCS= pcap.c inet.c gencode.c optimize.c nametoaddr.c etherent.c \
> savefile.c bpf_filter.c bpf_image.c grammar.y scanner.l \
> pcap-bpf.c version.c fad-getad.c
>
> ... but there's no bpf_filter.c in the ./lib/libpcap directory. Because
> of this
> dependency, libpcap won't compile.
>
> It seems that I can get a little further along if I remove bpf_filter.c
> from SRCS,
> but I wonder if that's the right thing to do.
>
> I found the problem originally by trying to compile libpcap from source on a
> 3.8 release system with the src.tar.gz tarball that came with it. I
> downloaded
> src.tar.gz from current (updated just last night) just to see if it's
> still and issue.
>

bpf_filter.c is in sys/net that's why .PATH: ${.CURDIR}/../../sys/net
is set after defining SRCS. In short you need kernel sources to compile
libpcap.

--
:wq Claudio

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