Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re-indenting the configure script (please test)

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From: Stephen Samuel <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:54:11 -0800
Quick query: Is glib required for building tethereal
and the other text-based commands?  I realize that,
without X loaded, ethereal itself will never compile
and I'm not expecting it to (disabled it in the config).

As for editing the configure script vs. configure.in,
uhm, oops... I should probably start there.  In any
case, a critique of my auto-indentation script would
still be welcome.


Joerg Mayer wrote:

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:20:15AM -0800, Stephen Samuel (leave the email alone) wrote:


I know that it has to do with insisting on testing the glib
configureation (it'S *NOT THERE!), but trying to figure out
the logic of the script is almost impossible



OK, three things:
1) You're a braver man than me, trying to understand the
   configure script.
2) Being lazy, I only try to understand the configure.in
   file, from which configure is automagically generated
   by running the autoconf command.
3) without having either glib or glib2 installed, Ethereal
   will neither build nor run: Some of the core data types
   Ethereal uses come from this lib. You do *not* need
   gtk (unless you want the graphical frontend), but glib(2)
   is required.


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