Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Failed RPM rebuild on sparc.

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 17:50:43 -0500
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 04:24:00PM -0600, Leif E. Olson wrote:
> I am new to Ethereal and just tried to use rpm --rebuild on the .src.rpm
> to make a .sparc.rpm.  After making it through most of the build, it
> bombed on the pod build:
> 
>  rpm --rebuild ethereal-0.8.13-1.src.rpm
>     . . .
> make[3]: Entering directory `/suni1/redhat/BUILD/ethereal-0.8.13/doc'
> ../ethereal -G | /pro/bin/perl ./dfilter2pod.pl ./ethereal.pod.template
> > ethere
> al.pod

It appeasrs that /pro/bin/perl is interpreting its stdin (the output of
../ethereal -G) as a script. Is /pro/bin/perl some kind of wrapper
around the real perl binary?

--gilbert