Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] The need to run autogen (almost) every day.

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:45:55 +0200
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 03:45:10AM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Is it just the pace of development?
> We seem to need to run autogen every day these days.
> Can anyone say why?

Well, with each and every file added to the tree, we need to
regenerate Makefile.in from Makefile.am -> autogen.sh. As
quite a few files have been added during the last few days,
your assumtion seems correct (spnego, netflow, gtk2, tapping,
tapping, tapping).
Also, I've been doing some changes to the build system in
order to enable the use of gtk2, but this is mostly done now
(there are still two things on my todo list, but as I currently
don't have an idea on how to fix them, they will remain there
until I get an inspiration :)
A solution might be that everyone upgrades their autoconf to
version 2.53 and we include configure in the cvs tree (2.53
doesn't include absolute line numbers into configure anymore).

  Ciao
       Jörg

PS: The open problems are: a) gtk or gtk2 or both are not packed
  with "make dist" and b) during make the system will check
  whether automake need to be run. This will fail if autorun.sh
  has not been run and either gtk or gtk2 are not installed.

--
Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
what proactive means.