Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10876] '--disable-glibtest' not working
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Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 12:30:46 +0000

Comment # 17 on bug 10876 from 
(In reply to Michael Davey from comment #15)
> >> If glib is still required to build the various non-gut components
>  
> > It is.  We make significant use of its functions in a number of places.
> 
> Yes, that is my confusion.
> 
> If --disable-glibtest and --enable-glibtest=no don't actually disable the
> test (on the basis that glib is always needed and presumably the argument
> being that therefore the test should always be executed), then these flags
> should be obsoleted and the documentation updated accordingly.

The --disable-glibtest flag does work on Wireshark 1.12.

What happens is, in the case of a broken Glib installation, which the macro
assumes instead of a missing installation (because AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 is part of
Glib), it tries to be helpful and figure out what went wrong and that's what
you're seeing here.

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