From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 21 01:17:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id BAA12664 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 01:17:04 -0800 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA12658 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 01:17:00 -0800 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id BAA21311; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 01:15:48 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199502210915.BAA21311@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Library version policy (was: tcpdump 3.0?) To: olah@cs.utwente.nl (Andras Olah) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 01:15:48 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <6497.793357354@utis156> from "Andras Olah" at Feb 21, 95 10:02:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 731 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm afraid I'm asking for trouble! ;-) So far I've got the > following possibilities for the version number of libpcap: > > 1) We've got libpcap v0.0pl3 from ftp.ee.lbl.gov in our tree. > 2) When installed it defaults to libpcap.so.2.0 (current situation) > 3) Garrett proposed 1.1 > 4) Rod voted for 2.4 My input was based upon a few quick greps over the sources we have and turning up the following in pcap.h: #define PCAP_VERSION_MAJOR 2 #define PCAP_VERSION_MINOR 4 Now why the called the tarball v0.0pl3 when infact the thing calls itself 2.4 is beyond me :-( -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD