Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] building a Gtk2 RPM (Was: QT_MIN_VERSION)

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

On 08/12/14 18:51, Christopher Maynard wrote:
> Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@...> writes:
>
> > That's odd; I just tried it (starting from the wireshark-1.12.0 source
> > tarball[1]) and did not have any problems.  I wonder if your
> > wireshark.spec file isn't being regenerated (from wireshark.spec.in)?
> > You could try comparing the two or just remove wireshark.spec to force
> > it to be built again.
> >
> > [1] cd /tmp && tar xjf /path/to/wireshark-1.12.0.tar.bz2 && cd
> > wireshark-1.12.0 && ./configure --with-gtk2 && make rpm-package
>
> Thanks for retesting.  The wireshark.spec file was definitely being regenerated.
>
> I noticed above that you did not run ./autogen.sh.  I tried once again, this
> time *without* running autogen.sh just as you've shown, but unfortunately
> the results were the same.

Source tarballs don't need ./autogen.sh run on them--that's part of the 
magic of "make dist" (and part of the argument against distributing 
source tarballs with tools/git-export-release.sh).

Anyway, I had been running this test on Fedora (20) but since I didn't 
want to accuse you of operator error ;-) I decided to try it on RHEL 6. 
 Sure enough, I saw the problem.  And in fact at the moment I'm not 
sure why it works on Fedora--I'll need to dig a bit deeper.  But anyway 
I think I know the fix--I'll commit that once I either have a better 
understanding of why it works on Fedora or at least I prove it works in 
both distros.