So, I love iftop, and use it on many of the linux machines I admin for work.

I recently purchased a new MacBookPro (one of the 17" Core 2 Duo models) and am running OS X 10.4.8, with the latest developer tools.

I downloaded iftop-0.17pre2.tar.gz from freshmeat, and tried to do a ./configure and make.

It puked.

I noted your request for feedback, so here is the relevant info:

kimball@cranky:~/Desktop/Downloads/iftop-0.17pre2 ./configure checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin8.8.2 checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin8.8.2 checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin8.8.2 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... no checking for awk... awk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking sys/sockio.h usability... yes checking sys/sockio.h presence... yes checking for sys/sockio.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for size_t... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking sys/dlpi.h usability... no checking sys/dlpi.h presence... no checking for sys/dlpi.h... no checking for regcomp... yes checking for select... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for strerror... yes checking for strspn... yes checking for library containing socket... none required checking for library containing log... none required checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for library containing inet_aton... none required checking for library containing inet_pton... none required checking for inet_aton... yes checking for inet_pton... yes checking size of u_int8_t... 1 checking size of u_int16_t... 2 checking size of u_int32_t... 4 checking for library containing getnameinfo... none required checking for library containing gethostbyaddr_r... no checking for library containing gethostbyaddr... none required configure: WARNING: using single-threaded resolver with gethostbyaddr Consider obtaining ARES or a machine with a working gethostbyaddr_r. checking where to find pcap.h... /include checking for pcap_open_live in -lpcap... yes checking pcap.h usability... yes checking pcap.h presence... yes checking for pcap.h... yes checking for a curses library containing mvchgat... -lcurses checking POSIX threads compilation... CFLAGS= and LIBS= checking POSIX threads usability... yes checking if we need to enable promiscuous mode by default... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating config/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: executing depfiles commands 0.17pre2 configure: WARNING: ************************************************************************ ******

This is a pre-release version. Pre-releases are subject to limited announcements, and therefore limited circulation, as a means of testing the more widely circulated final releases.

Please do not be surprised if this release is utterly, utterly broken. If you do find this release to be utterly, utterly broken, do not assume that someone else has spotted it. Instead, please drop a note on the mailing list, or a brief email to me on pdw@ex-parrot.com

Thank you for taking the time to be the testing phase of this development process.

Paul Warren

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kimball@cranky:~/Desktop/Downloads/iftop-0.17pre2 make make all-recursive Making all in config make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. source='addr_hash.c' object='addr_hash.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/addr_hash.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/addr_hash.TPo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./config/depcomp \ gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c `test -f 'addr_hash.c' || echo './'`addr_hash.c source='edline.c' object='edline.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/edline.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/edline.TPo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./config/depcomp \ gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c `test -f 'edline.c' || echo './'`edline.c source='hash.c' object='hash.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/hash.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/hash.TPo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./config/depcomp \ gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c `test -f 'hash.c' || echo './'`hash.c source='iftop.c' object='iftop.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/iftop.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/iftop.TPo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./config/depcomp \ gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c `test -f 'iftop.c' || echo './'`iftop.c In file included from iftop.c:46: ppp.h:61: error: array type has incomplete element type make[2]: *** [iftop.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2

Thanks!

-- Kimball