On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 05:27:28PM -0400, Ketan P Pancholi wrote:
> I am trying to install the latest ethereal version 0.8.19 on AIX.While
> doing the make its giving me the following error:
>
>
> (cd doc ; make ../mergecap.1 )
> make: 1254-002 Cannot find a rule to create target ../mergecap.1 from dependencies.
> Stop.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what's causing this?
An error building the release tarball, I suspect; the "doc/Makefile.in"
file wasn't rebuilt, for some reason, after the support for Mergecap was
checked in, so the rules for making the Mergecap documentation weren't
in it. (Note that the "$Id" line in "doc/Makefile.in" says
# $Id: Makefile.am,v 1.10 2001/05/16 21:32:05 ashokn Exp $
rather than
# $Id: Makefile.am,v 1.11 2001/07/12 19:59:40 guy Exp $
even though "doc/Makefile.am" has the latter line; "doc/Makefile.in" was
generated from the previous version of "doc/Makefile.am", which didn't
yet have the Mergecap stuff added to it.)
Apply to "doc/Makefile.in" the attached patch (you will need the "patch"
command; if you don't have it and can't get it, you'll have to apply the
patch by hand).
(This is not in any way AIX-specific; it's a universal bug that applies
on all UNIX-flavored OSes.)
*** Makefile.in Fri Jul 13 06:52:21 2001
--- /usr/local/src/ethereal-0.8.19/doc/Makefile.in Thu Jul 26 00:11:54 2001
***************
*** 13,19 ****
# Makefile.am
# Automake file for Ethereal documentation
#
! # $Id: Makefile.am,v 1.10 2001/05/16 21:32:05 ashokn Exp $
#
# Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer
# By Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxx>
--- 13,19 ----
# Makefile.am
# Automake file for Ethereal documentation
#
! # $Id: Makefile.am,v 1.11 2001/07/12 19:59:40 guy Exp $
#
# Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer
# By Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxx>
***************
*** 139,144 ****
--- 139,146 ----
ethereal_SUBDIRS = @ethereal_SUBDIRS@
ethereal_bin = @ethereal_bin@
ethereal_man = @ethereal_man@
+ mergecap_bin = @mergecap_bin@
+ mergecap_man = @mergecap_man@
randpkt_bin = @randpkt_bin@
tethereal_bin = @tethereal_bin@
tethereal_man = @tethereal_man@
***************
*** 272,277 ****
--- 269,280 ----
--center="The Ethereal Network Analyzer" \
--release=$(VERSION) \
> ../editcap.1
+
+ ../mergecap.1: mergecap.pod ../config.h
+ pod2man $(srcdir)/mergecap.pod \
+ --center="The Ethereal Network Analyzer" \
+ --release=$(VERSION) \
+ > ../mergecap.1
../text2pcap.1: text2pcap.pod ../config.h
pod2man $(srcdir)/text2pcap.pod \
