Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 30586: /trunk/ /trunk/: configure.in

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> In revision 19752, the AC_CANONICAL_ calls were after the AC_INIT  
> call.  The "Have autoconf generate "ustar" tar files by default. This  
> should let us have paths longer than 99 characters." change was the  
> one that moved them before the AC_INIT call.  Gerald?  Why was that  
> move done?

As I recall, it was the only way to get things working on my development
machine. Unfortunately it's been reinstalled since then so I can't
recreate the original problem.