Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Help please - dissector not getting registered

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:44:26 -0500
Peter Johansson wrote:

> I have noticed problems like these before and have at all times been
> able to resolve them by removing libethereal.dll that reside in the top
> level development directory. There is yet another libethereal.dll in
> ./epan (the one that you just rebuilt). I have however not had the time
> to check when libethereal.dll is created (or perhaps copied) to the top
> development directory.

I've been bitten by this too.  It looks like this comes from the
"ethereal-filter.pod" target in doc/Makefile.nmake.  I checked in a
change that makes it clean up after itself.