Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] small change request doc/Makefile.in

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:41:34 -0700 (PDT)
> Change the "ln" to "ln -s" where you do the link for ethereal-dump-fields.
> On AFS file systems, hard links do not work between different directories. 

I have the vague memory that somebody might've asked that we not do "ln
-s", for some reason, but I don't remember who asked for that.

I'm CCing the guy who originally asked that, in effect, we not go
through the regular Ethereal startup code path when generating the list
of fields that we can filter (because that code path goes through
"gtk_init()", which requires X to be running), in case he was the person
who asked that we not do "ln -s".

If nobody offers a reason why "ln -s" won't work, I'll change it to use
"ln -s"...

...or put the "-G" flag back (originally, "ethereal -G" produced that
list), but:

	require that it be the *first* command-line flag, and appear as
	"-G" by itself;

	have Ethereal ignore all other command-line arguments if it's
	specified;

	add code to check for the first argument being "-G" and, if so,
	put the list of fields out, and exit - and do that before
	calling "gtk_init()".