Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] buildbot failure in Wireshark (development) on Windows-XP-x8

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:01:05PM -0000, Graham Bloice wrote:
> > > > Most likely it has a problem with the / instead of \ in uil/util.obj.
> > > > Does someone have an idea how to resolve this?
> > > util.obj is being produced in the top level root directory, but the linker
> > is
> > > looking for it in ui\.  I'm looking at the makefile now.
> > Hmm.  I think this would need an explicit build rule.  As it stands, the
> > compiler is told to compile ui/util.c when in the top level directory, so
> > that's where the object file is placed.  The linker is told to look for
> > ui/util.obj and complains.
>
> Thanks for looking into it. I will look at how to resolve this in the
> build structure. As this is is going to effect additional files as I move
> the files around we need a "proper" solution. Ideas are of course
> welcome ;-)

I've been a little uneasy with the fact that there's no makefile in ui/ 
.  It seems like putting source files in there but no makefile is asking 
for trouble.  But I haven't thought about it much.