Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] How do I get an ethereal executable instead of shell script

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:12:22 -0600 (CST)
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Jochen Friedrich wrote:

> Hi Dinesh,
> 
> > I'm trying to run gdb on ethereal (on Linux RH 8). I cannot do so because
> > ethereal is a shell script that relinks to create the executable. Could someone
> > point out what I need to do to get the executable and not the script ? I also
> > need the executable for other reasons besides debugging.
> 
> Either run "make install" which installs the final executable in
> $prefix/bin or look in the .libs directory for local debugging.

According to

    http://www.gnu.org/manual/libtool-1.4.2/html_node/libtool_11.html

you might run into linking issues if you do this.  If you're using gdb you
can run

    libtool gdb ethereal 

or if you use a debugger that libtool doesn't recognize (e.g. ddd) you can
run

    libtool --mode=execute ddd ethereal