> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Sharpe [mailto:rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 07:37
> To: Guy Harris
> Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Does anyone build on RH7.3? or Debian
>
> On Tue, 20 May 2003, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:08:29PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > > Andrew Tridgell was complaining today that he cannot get
> > > Ethereal to build on Debian or RedHat 7.3, so he has
> > > basically given up trying to use it.
> >
> > RH 7.3? No.
>
> I run RH 7.2 and that seems OK. Andrew complained about 7.3 though.
I have built Ethereal on RH7.3 since it was released and
now with all official updates applied, and have never had
any problems. I use the following to configure the CVS version:
autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/ethereal --enable-gtk2
> > Debian? I mainly run FreeBSD at home, but I also have
> > Debian 3.0 (and Solaris 7 and NT 4.0) installed on my
> > main machine, so I could try a build there.
>
> I am told Debian SID with updates from last week.
>
> > > There seems to be problems with autogen.sh creating
> > > INSTALL and then failing later because it already exists.
> >
> > That might be a result of whatever version of automake/
> > autoconf happens to be installed - it might be trying to
In my case I have:
automake-1.4p5-4
autoconf-2.13-17
> > supply a default INSTALL file, or something such as that,
> > which is a bit silly given that we have our own INSTALL file.
>
> --
> Regards
> -----
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
> sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
//Peter
