[Iftop-users] mac os x 10.2.6 compile?

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:48:24 +0100


On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:41:30PM -0700, Siri Dhyan Singh wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to get 0.13 to compile and it gets to here and hangs.
> 
> 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 how to compile a working program with POSIX threads...
> 
> Any ideas?

Yep. It's a brokenness in Mac OS's POSIX threads routines.
I'll try to do a fix later.

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