Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] OBJEXT/EXEEXT not being defined in configure for ethereal
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Guy Harris wrote:
> That's odd, because I've been able to successfully run autoconf 2.13
> with the Ethereal configure.in on:
> Solaris 2.{5.1,6,7,8} (Solaris 7 on x86, others on SPARC)
>
> FreeBSD 3.4 (on x86)
>
> assorted versions of Linux (on x86)
>
> without that problem.
>
> So there's something more complicated happening here.
>
Unless the problem is only with the included configure script, and not the
configure.in. I did not rebuild the configure script until after making the
modification to configure.in; i.e. the problem with errors about not being
able to build tools/lemon/lemon.@OBJEXT@ came after
./configure (omitting some options related to prefix and location of libpcap)
make
That is, I did not do an autoconf first.
The build succeeded without hitch (barring some disk quota issues, beyond the
power of the ethereal development team:) after adding the macros to configure.in
running autoconf, and doing a new configure and make. It may be that the
additional macros didn't solve anything, it was just the re-running of autoconf
that fixed it, which may mean the included configure script was built from an
old version of autoconf.
I will try to see if I can reproduce the problem again.
Tom Payerle
Dept of Physics payerle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
University of Maryland (301) 405-6973
College Park, MD 20742-4111 Fax: (301) 314-9525
