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Does Wireshark for non-Windows platforms have a build with local libpcap source option?

I found that tcpdump when building from source has an option to compile with local libpcap built from source instead of say system installed libpcap. Per this article: https://www.voipmonitor.org/doc/Windows_rpcapd

For building Wireshark from source, there's a helpful post in: https://ask.wireshark.org/question/16292/how-to-enable-rpcap-support-in-linux-version/?answer=16294#post-id-16294

but not being familiar with the Wireshark build process, just wondering if Wireshark build has similar option?

If there is, what to do to build with locally built libpcap not installed on system? Reason for this is to build something for more portable use where you don't have to install it into the system, both the custom built libpcap and Wireshark.