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Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] adding dissector, automake fails

From: "your highness" <zanash@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:53:08 +0100
I am trying to add a dissector as a plugin for a new protocol. Before
writing the dissector I tried the source of the example described in
the documentation for developers:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChDissectAdd.html

I am using the Makefile.am of Example 9.6. given on that page exactly
without any changes. I tried the following:
- generated configure.scan by "autoscan"
- renamed configure.scan to configure.in
- ran "automake"

But then I get a lot of errors as shown at the end of this email. I am
using Fedora Core release 6 and automake-1.9... And I am a new Linux
user :-)

Then I tried autoscan and automake on the sources of a plugin which
was included in the source and I got exactly the same errors. By the
way, I have installed the binaries and haven't compiled the source
myself.

Has anyone an idea what I am doing wrong?

Here is the output of automake:

# automake
configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
Makefile.am: required file `./INSTALL' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./README' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./AUTHORS' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./COPYING' not found
configure.in:7: required file `config.h.in' not found
Makefile.am:5: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
Makefile.am:5:
Makefile.am:5: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
Makefile.am:5: to `configure.in' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
/usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear
in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL