Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11069] Building with autotools doesn't create wireshark.pc
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 07:06:11 +0000

changed bug 11069


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Summary Building with autotools doesn't instal pkg-config data (wireshark.pc file) Building with autotools doesn't create wireshark.pc from wireshark.pc.in

Comment # 2 on bug 11069 from 
You are right, it doesn't install more than just that one file.  That was
misunderstanding on my part, sorry for that.

However, all other files are available for installation.  I should've probably
explained my problem from a bigger perspective, I'll try that now.  I'm
compiling libvirt with wireshark dissector for it and it works perfectly. 
However, we switched from file- and library-based detection of wireshark to
just using pkg-config.  That works only on distributions that do install their
own wireshark.pc file (e.g. Fedora).  But that's not everywhere (e.g. Gentoo). 
I wanted to fix this problem in the lowest layer possible (upstream), but
haven't realized that distributions' packages must install all of the
development files themselves.

So instead of requesting the installation of all development files, that would
be really nice to have, but I understand if that's too much of a change, I'd at
least request building proper wireshark.pc file so distributions don't have to
hack that in.  I'll fix the particular package I've problems with then.

If building with cmake is the preferred method then mentioning this in the
documentation would be the easiest way to go, but I guess that's still WIP.

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