Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal error

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:55:59 -0700
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 02:51:51PM -0400, Patnaik, Anjela wrote:
> Hi, I used make install to build a smaller directory with
> the necessary files needed for launching Ethereal with
> my plugins. I get this error when I launch it from the
> bin directory:
> ld.so.1: ./ethereal : fatal: docsis.so: open failed: No such
> file or directory
> 
> Would you know what this means??

It means that, somehow, Ethereal was linked at build time with the
DOCSIS plugin, and the dynamic linker didn't find it when Ethereal
started.

That's not supposed to happen - Ethereal's not supposed to be linked
with plugins at build time, it's supposed to load them itself at run
time.

I have no idea how that happened.