Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] idl2wrs cannot be disabled in Wireshark 1.8.

[Anders Broman <a.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Morriss skrev 2012-06-08 22:35:
> Petr Sumbera wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I see that configure option '--disable-idl2wrs' no longer works for 
> > 1.8 version. I would like ask what is behind this change? And without 
> > knowing exactly what this script does I see that wireshark_be.py and 
> > wireshark_gen.py are not installed at the same time... So I'm confused.
I think it refers to \wireshark\epan\dissectors\dcerpc\idl2wrs.c which 
is used for samba related stuff
not the idl2wrs python script used for Corba based dissectors which uses 
wireshark_be.py and wireshark_gen.py
> Looks like this came in this revision:
>
> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=39985&view=revision
>
> The commit log doesn't list a reason, but I suppose it might be for 
> simplicity (really, why have an option?).
>
> But, I'm not entirely sure it makes sense to install the script at 
> all: its purpose is to generate dissectors which is a development task 
> (for which you need the source code) not something someone would be 
> doing on an installed system.
>
> Balint?
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