Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eclipse project for Wireshark

[Dietfrid Mali <karx11erx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have tried to launch DDD via libtool. It didn't display any source code to me (not even when I explicitly loaded that source file), and said that it didn't contain any code about every object file it touched. I am clueless to why this is so.

Actually I do not want to discuss why DDD would be pathetic or crap, nor why this wouldn't be the fault of Wireshark's setup. What I know is that I am having another open source project on Linux that is built via automake generated make files, and which I can debug just fine with DDD. I don't want to conduct fruitless discussions about whether the Wireshark setup is any good or not either. All I wish to be is to be able to debug it using DDD.

> From: guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:33:42 -0800
> To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eclipse project for Wireshark
>
>
> 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....)
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