From: Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky>
Subject: Re: ports libpcap?
To: ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:49:11 +0100

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