Do not attempt to search for local libpcap libraries lying around in the parent of the build directory, or anywhere else random. This is not expected to succeed anyway, but it is better to be sure. diff -Naur arpwatch-3.1-original/configure arpwatch-3.1/configure --- arpwatch-3.1-original/configure 2020-04-05 20:22:04.000000000 -0400 +++ arpwatch-3.1/configure 2020-11-07 11:59:40.114550004 -0500 @@ -5437,6 +5437,7 @@ places=`ls .. | sed -e 's,/$,,' -e 's,^,../,' | \ egrep '/libpcap-[0-9]*\.[0-9]*(\.[0-9]*)?([ab][0-9]*)?$'` for dir in $places ../libpcap libpcap ; do + break basedir=`echo $dir | sed -e 's/[ab][0-9]*$//'` if test $lastdir = $basedir ; then continue;