Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eclipse project for Wireshark
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:33:42 -0800
On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2011, at 1:34 AM, Dietfrid Mali wrote:
> 
>> The problem is that Wireshark is launched by a script settings paths and doing whatnot and finally starting Wireshark from some (hidden?!) subfolder.
> 
> That's libtool at work.  If the GNU project GDB and the GNU project libtool can't work together, that's something for the GNU project to fix; if DDD can't handle libtool-based projects, that's something for DDD to fix.

And if it can't handle libtool-based projects, that would be *really* pathetic:

	http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddd/ANNOUNCE

"DDD Makefiles use libtool for generic shared library support."

To run a debugger on an executable built using libtool, you definitely *do* need to run it with "./libtool --mode=execute {debugger} {args}", but if

	./libtool --mode=execute ddd wireshark

doesn't allow DDD to find Wireshark's source files, but

	./libtool --mode=execute gdb wireshark

*does* allow GDB to find Wireshark's source files, that's a DDD bug.

(I couldn't even get Wireshark or TShark to *start* on Ubuntu 9.10 when I tried running under GDB - it failed to find the symbol wsp_vals_pdu_type_ext symbol when I ran "./libtool --mode=execute gdb {wireshark,tshark}", but it *did* find it when I just ran "./wireshark" or "./tshark" - so I wasn't able to test it with GDB or DDD; libtool strikes again....)