Mac OS X autoconf bug (?)

[Koryn Grant]

Hi there,

Attempting to compile libpcap from the CVS source at www.tcpdump.org on 
Mac OS X 10.3.2 gave the following message:

===== begin output =====

address@hidden ./configure ; make
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
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 gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking gcc version... 3
checking for inline... inline
checking for __attribute__... yes
checking for u_int8_t using gcc... yes
checking for u_int16_t using gcc... yes
checking for u_int32_t using gcc... yes
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/ioccom.h usability... yes
checking sys/ioccom.h presence... yes
checking for sys/ioccom.h... yes
checking sys/sockio.h usability... yes
checking sys/sockio.h presence... yes
checking for sys/sockio.h... yes
checking ifaddrs.h usability... yes
checking ifaddrs.h presence... yes
checking for ifaddrs.h... yes
checking limits.h usability... yes
checking limits.h presence... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking netinet/if_ether.h usability... no
checking netinet/if_ether.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: netinet/if_ether.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: netinet/if_ether.h: check for missing prerequisite 
headers?
configure: WARNING: netinet/if_ether.h: proceeding with the 
preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to address@hidden ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
checking for netinet/if_ether.h... yes
checking for ANSI ioctl definitions... yes
checking for ether_hostton... yes
checking for strerror... yes
checking for strlcpy... yes
checking for vsnprintf... yes
checking for snprintf... yes
checking if --disable-protochain option is specified... enabled
checking packet capture type... bpf
checking for getifaddrs... yes
checking if --enable-ipv6 option is specified... no
checking whether to build optimizer debugging code... no
checking whether to build parser debugging code... no
checking whether we have /proc/net/dev... no
checking whether we have DAG API... no
checking for flex... flex
checking for flex 2.4 or higher... yes
checking for bison... bison
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking if sockaddr struct has sa_len member... yes
checking if sockaddr_storage struct exists... yes
checking if dl_hp_ppa_info_t struct has dl_module_id_1 member... no
checking if unaligned accesses fail... no
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h

===== end output =====

Other information that may be relevant:

address@hidden uname -a
Darwin eMac.local 7.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.2.0: Thu Dec 11 
16:20:23 PST 2003; root:xnu/xnu-517.3.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power 
Macintosh powerpc
~/source/tcpdump-cvs/libpcap
address@hidden autoconf --version
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