Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Solaris

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:01:35 -0500
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:48:37PM -0500, David Frascone wrote:
> 
> 
> The last "official" release builds fine with Solaris make and Solaris C
> 
> That's the only reason I mentioned it (and ignored the "Abandon hope all
> who enter here" paragraph) *grin*
> 
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 01:35:58PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > > The development code still blows up badly under Solaris.
> >
> > ...*IF* you use the Solaris "make" and Sun C.
> >
> > It works fine with the GNU "make" and GCC.
> >
> > > It's the automagical dependency stuff that breaks it.
> > >
> > > The generatee Makefiles are no longer standard (GNU make works, but 
> solaris
> > > make does not).

Official releases (built with "make dist") contain hard coded dependencies.
Development builds (built with "./autogen") contain "automagical" dependencies.
That's the default behaviour for autoconf/automake. Perhaps there's an
override for this behaviour.

--gilbert