Folks –

I am receiving the following error at the end of my compile attempt – any thoughts? I have included the full output below. This was compiled with gcc 3.3, ncurses 5.3, and libpcap 0.8.1. System is a SUN E450 running Solaris 8.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Adam

checking how to compile a working program with POSIX threads... no idea

configure: error: can't figure out how to compile with POSIX threads

 If your system actually supports POSIX threads, this means we've messed up.

root@afc2 # ./configure && make

checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8

checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8

checking target system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8

checking for a BSD-compatible install... config/install-sh -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for gawk... no

checking for mawk... no

checking for nawk... nawk

checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes

checking for gcc... gcc

checking for C compiler default output... 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 style of include used by make... GNU

checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -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... no

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 gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed

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... yes

checking sys/dlpi.h presence... yes

checking for sys/dlpi.h... yes

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... -lsocket

checking for library containing log... -lm

checking for gethostbyname... no

checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... yes

checking for library containing inet_aton... no

checking for library containing inet_pton... none required

checking for inet_aton... no

checking for inet_pton... yes

checking size of u_int8_t... unknown type

checking size of u_int16_t... unknown type

checking size of u_int32_t... unknown type

checking for stdint.h... (cached) no

checking sys/inttypes.h usability... yes

checking sys/inttypes.h presence... yes

checking for sys/inttypes.h... yes

checking for library containing getnameinfo... none required

checking for library containing gethostbyaddr_r... none required

checking how to call gethostbyaddr_r... 7 args, struct hostent* return

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... -lncurses

checking how to compile a working program with POSIX threads... no idea

configure: error: can't figure out how to compile with POSIX threads

  If your system actually supports POSIX threads, this means we've messed up.

root@afc2 #