Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Libtool changes checked in

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On the other hand, it appears that installing "libtool" caused "libldtl"
> to be installed, so, if we *do* require that people installing the
> distribution install "libtool" - or, if it's not installed, disable
> plugins, just as we disable capture if we don't find "libpcap", disable
> reading compressed files if we don't find "libz", and disable fancy SNMP
> dissection in 0.8.0 if we don't find an SNMP library - we could probably
> leave the "libltdl" source out of our distribution.  This might solve
> the problem you're seeing.

Or not; you may just get a conflict with a symbol in the installed
"libltdl" rather than the convenience-library version.

> I suspect that if we build with "--disable-shared", we may want to
> disable plugins; at least on some platforms, statically-linked programs
> *cannot* use "dlopen()".

Given that the "libtool" info file says to do so, we should definitely
do so.  I'll look into doing that.