Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Developing ethereal without gtk installed

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:13:55 -0700
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 02:48:08AM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> This patch works by keeping a fallback
> copy of gtk.m4 which is only used in case it is not provided by the local
> installation.

...and allows fallback copies to be added for other optional packages.

The fallback copy of gtk.m4 could presumably just say "GTK+ not found" -
if enough of GTK+ is installed to compile programs using it, the
autoconf macros should be installed as well.