Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT braking MSVC build

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:55:01 -0700
Anders Broman (AL/EAB) wrote:

NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make '../AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT'
Stop.

The autoconf/automake build path happens to make that file before doing a make in the "doc" subdirectory; the MSVC++ one doesn't.

I've added to doc/Makefile.nmake a rule for ../AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT, similar to the rule it has for making ../tethereal.exe.