Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] 0.8.16 on HP-UX 10.20

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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:55:34AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:43:49AM -0600, ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > epan/configure.in checks for dlopen but not shl_load (dlopen
> > equivalent on HP-UX). Nowhere in epan/* is dlopen used though (you use
> > the Glib equivalent).
> 
> Correct, which means that the right test would probably be a check
> whether GLib supports dynamic loading - i.e., use AC_TRY_RUN to build a
> small program, linked with glib, that calls "g_module_supported()",
> exits with an exit status of 0 if "g_module_supported()" returns TRUE
> and 1 if it returns FALSE, and have the result of that program govern
> whether we support plugins or not.

We'll send a new patch over the weekend.

-- 
albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)