that was intentional, it's in a non standard directory (similar layout to 
ports/security/openssl, though I've just realised that moving the manpages 
may be a good idea).

I did forget to update LIB_DEPENDS/WANTLIB in the wireshark diff though.


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  Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.

On 26 February 2026 22:49:31 Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:45:37 +0100,
> Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>>
>> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
>> I'd like to add an alternative version of libpcap to ports - similar
>> to our handling of other libraries which exist in base + ports, with a
>> non-default install path to avoid it getting picked up by accident.
>>
>> tar.gz for this attached.  Any comments or OKs?
>
> It installs
>
> @static-lib lib/libpcap/libpcap.a
> @lib lib/libpcap/libpcap.so.${LIBpcap_VERSION}
>
> which conflicts with system's libpcap.
>
> with that hunk in CMakeLists's patch:
>
> --- CMakeLists.txt.orig
> +++ CMakeLists.txt
> @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ else()
>     #
>     # On UN*X, it's always been libpcap.
>     #
> -    set(LIBRARY_NAME pcap)
> +    set(LIBRARY_NAME epcap)
> endif()
>
> option(INET6 "Enable IPv6" ON)
>
>
> and adjustment SHARED_LIBS OK kirill@
>
> --
> wbr, Kirill