Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] bison required to build but not enforced

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 04:47:23AM +0100, Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> I cant send to wireshark-bugs, I have to have an account to enter a bug
> on the website, which I dont feel like doing, so here is the problem
> description as suggested by the bounce email from wireshark-bugs.
> 
> pcap_parse() is only built if bison is present, while this makes sense
> given how its generated, I do not know how many would know that.  If you
> do not make this and the program linking to it doesnt define
> pcap_parse() (wireshark for example doesnt, nor does it in its configure
> check scripts) then it will fail with an unresolved symbol error.  
> 
> I would suggest that it either print a big unmissable warning about how
> the library wont work properly with many apps or it enforce that bison
> is there during the configure stage.

I checked in a change to do that a while ago - can you please check
whether the problem is still present in current svn?

 Thanks!
       Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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