Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Effort to implement support for a new protocol

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 7:17 PM, Andy Howell wrote:

> > Yes - when you click on a frame the keyboard and/or mouse is grabbed 
> > (I forget which).  At home, at least, I use a version of GTK+ that I 
> > hacked to have a "--gtk-no-grabs" command-line argument, which 
> > disables those grabs, and run Ethereal with that argument when 
> > debugging.
>
> Hmm, that sounds like a neat trick. Is it only the GTK+ lib that needs 
> hacking?

I think I might have had to tweak something in GLib as well.

> On another note, is there a way to speed up the build? After 
> compiling, ethereal seems to be a script that then does further 
> linking. To debug, I have to run it once, exit, and run 
> .libs/lt-ethereal to run it under the debugger. Is there a faster way?

"libtool gdb ethereal" will, I think, do it.  (I think libtool creates 
that wrapper script because you *might* have linked with a shared 
library that's not installed, because you might be building something 
that includes both shared libraries and applications, so it tweaks the 
run-time linking path to pick up shared libraries from your build tree, 
or something such as that:

	http://www.gnu.org/manual/libtool-1.4.2/html_node/libtool_11.html

That's not currently an issue for Ethereal on UNIX, as it doesn't 
include any shared libraries of its own, but that might change in the 
future.)

However, that's not a build speed issue, that's a separate issue.