Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] trying to compile fails (although it shouldn't...)

[Nico Schottelius <nicos-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris [Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:50:27AM -0800]:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:37:26PM +0000, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> > in /usr/lib are more or less no libs in my system. I got a different
> > file system hierachie.
> > I will release it on linux.schottelius.org/projects/FSH in autumn 2002.
> 
> Are you also planning on releasing either
> 
> 	1) changes to autoconf

This would be most senseful, but because FSH is not yet released, it would 
be much to early for that.
Btw, after FSH I will also release a package manager, which works fine with
problems like missing -L, -I or prefix. Even using zip files is okay.
BUt currently I am stressed enough to do the last months in school and to
graduate. So expect it somewhere in autumn/winter 2002.

> 	2) changes to all software using autoconf

No. I don't like that.

> 	3) a suggested "config.site" file, plus directions to set
> 	   "CONFIG_SITE"

I have not heard about config.site files, could you give me an url or something
for more information ?
 
> 	4) some other such scheme

possibly like described above. only time is missing...
 
> so that people using your file system hierarchy won't have to tweak
> Makefiles by hand in order to get software using autoconf to compile?

No, that would frustrate users and that's not what I intend to force to anybody.

> If so, you may run the risk of causing trouble for people using your
> file system hierarchy if they try to download and compile software (as
> you've already discovered).  Autoconf tries to compensate for the
> amazing diversity of operating systems and of the configuration of
> individual machines running those operating systems, but if you run hard
> enough, you can outrun it unless you give it some help....

That's true. Autoconf is really a pretty good idea.

Btw, back to etherreal: 
After I got it running, it seems to break down:
I start logging for some seconds and then stop it. Etherreal tries to load
the file, but doesn't finish this process! The table with the data is updated
really seldom (after window over/back it is redrawn very late)...

Is that normal ?

Nico

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