> What about gtk+ and the packet capture libraries?
> My cookbook:
> 1. install gtk+
> 2. intall libcap
> 3. make and install ethereal
What *about* them?
I've installed GLib, GTK+, and libpcap, from source, on the Solaris
2.5.1 machines at work and on my Solaris 7 machine at home; the only
headache I had was that "glib-config" didn't put a "-R" flag into the
output of "glib-config --libs", which meant that Ethereal wasn't built
with "-R /usr/local/lib", meaning that it couldn't find the shared
libraries for GLib or GTK+ when run (setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a gross
and painful workaround), so I applied the patch
*** glib-config.in 1999/10/14 01:56:47 1.1
--- glib-config.in 1999/10/14 01:58:41 1.2
***************
*** 107,111 ****
libsp="@G_MODULE_LDFLAGS@ -lgmodule $libsp"
libsa="$libsa @G_MODULE_LIBS@"
fi
! echo -L@libdir@ $libsp $libsa
fi
--- 107,130 ----
libsp="@G_MODULE_LDFLAGS@ -lgmodule $libsp"
libsa="$libsa @G_MODULE_LIBS@"
fi
!
! case "`(uname -sr) 2>/dev/null`" in
! "SunOS 5"*)
! #
! # XXX - "autoconf" 2.13 thinks that "some versions of Sun
! # CC require a space after -R and others require no space";
! # I don't know if this is a problem with Sun C, or with
! # Sun's linker (which GCC may also use), but, for now,
! # we ignore the problem and assume "-R" works like
! # "-L". This needs to be checked in "configure"
! # (but, then, "autoconf" should provide some nice way
! # to deal with "-R").
! #
! echo -L@libdir@ -R@libdir@ $libsp $libsa
! ;;
!
! *)
! echo -L@libdir@ $libsp $libsa
! ;;
! esac
fi
which seems to make it happy. (Arguably, "gtk-config" should be changed
in this fashion as well, but as GTK+ requires GLib, it wasn't necessary
in this case, so I didn't bother).
I sent that patch to the GTK+ folk; I don't think it's in 1.2.7, so
you'd probably still have to apply it.
You also have to remember to do "make install-incl", as well as "make
install", when installing libpcap - for some unknown reason, "make
install" installs neither the header files nor the man pages. "make
install" appears to be sufficient when installing GLib or GTK+.
Other than that, it was
download;
unpack;
./configure;
make;
install;
and that's it - no muss, no fuss.
