Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Building wireshark-0.99.6 problems on Linux
From: Fabrizio Bertocci <fabrizio@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:24:57 -0700
All,I tried to build wireshark 0.99.6 on several platforms and I discovered several problems I'm reporting on this email. I haven't been following up the mailing list, so I don't know if they are known problems or not. Anyway:
[1] When building a rpm package, the rpm build fails because of a warning that is treated as error (when it should not be!). The problem is reported in: wiretap/file_access.c (line 993) (the warning is about passing a 'const' pointer to gzwrite that is declared to take a non-const pointer). As workaround, simply change the RPM SPEC file under packaging/rpm/SPEC/wireshark.spec.in (or, if you have already run the configure, change the packaging/rpm/SPEC/wireshark.spec) to have --disable-warnings-as-errors in the CFLAGS. The correct fix would be to understand why the rpm build uses the -Werror flag even if not requested...
[2] The RPM build still fail because apparently the man pages are now installed under $PREFIX/share/man instead of $PREFIX/man. The workaround is, again, to change the SPEC file (same as above), replacing the line:
%prefix/man/*/* into: %prefix/share/man/*/* (in %files section)Again, the correct action would be to understand why the man pages are installed under '$PREFIX/share' now and perhaps move it back the way it was before.
[3] On RedHat Enterprise 3, CentOS 3, and RedHat 9 the build fails because the file:
gtk/export-object.c uses some functions that are available only on GTK 2.4 and above.The correct fix is to #ifdef those sections to use the new API (GTK 2.4>) only if gtk+2.4 is available, or use the old API for older gtk.
Attached you can find the .diff file for this. Fabrizio
--- export_object.c 2007-07-30 15:45:51.000000000 -0700 +++ ../../wireshark-0.99.6.original/gtk/export_object.c 2007-07-05 12:22:28.000000000 -0700 @@ -179,19 +179,11 @@ gtk_window_set_transient_for(GTK_WINDOW(save_as_w), GTK_WINDOW(object_list->dlg)); -#if (GTK_MAJOR_VERSION == 2 && GTK_MINOR_VERSION >= 4) || GTK_MAJOR_VERSION > 2 - gtk_file_chooser_set_current_name(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(save_as_w), entry->filename); -#else - gtk_file_selection_set_filename(GTK_FILE_SELECTION(save_as_w), entry->filename); -#endif + gtk_file_chooser_set_current_name(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(save_as_w), + entry->filename); if(gtk_dialog_run(GTK_DIALOG(save_as_w)) == GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT) -#if (GTK_MAJOR_VERSION == 2 && GTK_MINOR_VERSION >= 4) || GTK_MAJOR_VERSION > 2 eo_save_entry(gtk_file_chooser_get_filename(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(save_as_w)), entry, TRUE); -#else - eo_save_entry(gtk_file_selection_get_filename(GTK_FILE_SELECTION(save_as_w)), entry, TRUE); - -#endif window_destroy(save_as_w); } @@ -216,11 +208,7 @@ while(slist) { entry = slist->data; -#if (GTK_MAJOR_VERSION == 2 && GTK_MINOR_VERSION >= 4) || GTK_MAJOR_VERSION > 2 save_as_fullpath = g_build_filename(gtk_file_chooser_get_filename(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(save_in_w)), entry->filename, NULL); -#else - save_as_fullpath = g_build_filename(gtk_file_selection_get_filename(GTK_FILE_SELECTION(save_in_w)), entry->filename, NULL); -#endif if (!eo_save_entry(save_as_fullpath, entry, FALSE)) all_saved = FALSE;
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