Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Merging configure.in and epan/configure.in ?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:15:03 -0700

On Oct 17, 2003, at 3:40 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:


I've jsut created a patch that checks whether a display filter is being
called with capture syntax. In order to do that, I'll need to copy all
the pcap stuff detection from the toplevel configure.in and acinclude.m4 into the files in epan. Instead of doing that I'm very tempted to remove 
the configure stuff in epan completely and merge it into the toplevel
configure.
The original change to create "epan/configure.in" was checked in with the comment:
Give libethereal its own configuration file, and have that configuration 
	file, rather than the top-level Ethereal configuration file, check for
	"inet_aton()", "inet_pton()", and "inet_ntop()".  Then make its
	Makefile.am include the appropriate object files if necessary.
	Otherwise, they don't get built and put into libethereal, and therefore
	attempts to link with anything in libethereal that uses them fail on
	platforms that lack ethem, causing the build to fail.