trouble building mtr 0.87 on snow leopard. Solved with a hack...

[Chris Jones]

On 28/10/16 14:08, Peter Hancock wrote:
> On 28/10/2016 13:10, Chris Jones wrote:
>
>>> On 28/10/2016 11:03, Peter Hancock wrote:
>>>> On a snow leopard machine, mtr won't upgrade from 0.86 to 0.87.
>>>> The trouble, according to the log, is that IPPROTO_SCTP isn't defined.
>>>
>>> What I did was to edit /usr/include/netinet/in.h
>>> and give IPPROTO_SCTP the same value (132) as it has on
>>> the Yosemite machine on which mtr build.
>>>
>>> It built, and seems to work (for what I use it for, anyway).
>>
>> Needless to say, that is not a good idea, hacking the system files...
>
> Yes of course it's Wrong. (Once it built, I removed the hack.)
> Sadly I've never learnt how to use "patch" or indeed (m?)any of the tools one needs
> to tweak things in macports ...

I don't really care what you do to your own machines, in private. Just 
don't post advice like this to the list, for others to follow ;)

Please also keep your replies on-list.

Chris

>
>>
>> Instead you should patch the source for mtr to define  IPPROTO_SCTP in some appropriate header file there...
>>
>
> Peter
>