Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] RFD: Creating subdirectories in epan/dissectors/

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

Evan Huus wrote:
> > I'm not 100% convinced either way, but I have to admit I do like having all
> > the dissectors in the same directory.  "make -j 40" (on my 32-vCPU SPARC)
> > works better that way ;-).
>
> I'm pretty sure an autotools-generated Makefile will already recurse
> to fill the given job-count as long as there aren't any weird
> dependencies in place, so it shouldn't make any difference. Can't
> speak for cmake or windows builds.

Only if all the files are in one Makefile (e.g., 
epan/dissectors/Makefile).  If each subdir has its own Makefile then 
each directory is processed one at a time (in my experience).

> > More seriously, I imagine I'd find it easier to
> > do:
> >
> > vi epan/dissectors/packet-xmpp<tab><tab>
> >
> > instead of:
> >
> > vi
> > epan/dissectors/packet-xmpp<tab><tab>[1]^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hxmpp<tab>/<tab><tab>
> >
> > [1] insert grumpy remark here
>
> Fair enough. So another tweak to the suggested naming:
> packet-xmpp/xmpp-whatever.c

In fact taking your suggestion of removing "packet-" from all the file 
names would also achieve the same thing.