Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] plugin Linux Makefile failure

["Jaap Keuter" <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

Looks like that somewhere in the process an ASCII editor is used which has the option "Replace tabs by spaces" enabled.

Look very carefully at the settings of your editors.

 

Thanx,

Jaap

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From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Pultorak
Sent: 2008-Apr-03 16:45
To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] plugin Linux Makefile failure

I have added a few custom plugins to the new release (1.0.0).  I 
was able to successfully compile the code before adding anything.
I followed 
the DEVELOPER.plugins file for instruction how to add a new plugin 
correctly.  I updated all the necessary files, ran autogen.sh and 
configure.  When compiling my plugins I get the following 
error:

Makefile:763: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 
spaces?).  Stop.

If I go into the makefile it corresponds to this 
line:
        @if test -n "$(PYTHON)"; 
then \

if I change the spaces to a tab, it just changes the error to 
another line, it takes over 20 replacements like this to successfully 
compile.  I have done a diff between my makefile and agentx's makefile and 
the only difference is the name of my plugin.  I would like to fix the root 
of the problem rather then hand editing the Makefile any time I run the 
configure script.

Thanks,
Bob