Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] RPM generation

[Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:46:19AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2018, at 9:44 AM, Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Look for errors early in the process. For instance, without gcc-c++
> > installed on CentOS, I would get a very cryptic error down the road.
> 
> I.e., if you don't have C and C++ compilers installed, you get a very cryptic error rather than a "hey, you need a C and C++ compiler to compile something written in C and C++" error?  Or is it just an issue with the C++ compiler?
> 
> In either case, that's not good.

As far as I can remember, it did actually say that a C++ compiler was
missing, but it did not cause an immediate exit. A bit later, it started
complaining while checking for Qt.
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Kind regards,
Peter Wu
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