Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap make problem

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From: Gilbert_Ramirez@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:26:46 -0500



Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> on 08/16/2000 05:18:03 PM

To:   Narendra Chaparala <Narendra.Chaparala@xxxxxxxxxxx>
cc:   ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx (bcc: Gilbert Ramirez/Tivoli Systems)
Subject:  [ethereal-dev] Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap make problem




> Hi Harris,
>      it worked when installed both flex and bison. anyway i'm having problems
> with ethereal `make`. after configuring successfully the make reports the
> following errors.
>
>      (cd doc ; \
> make ../ethereal.1 )
> ../ethereal -G | /ws/on81-tools/SUNWspro/SC5.0/bin/perl ./dfilter2pod.pl
> ./ethereal.pod.template > ethereal.pod
> syntax error in file ./dfilter2pod.pl at line 43, next 2 tokens "chomp("

The error about chomp() would seem to indicate that you're running perl 4, as
perl 5 introduced chomp().

--gilbert