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Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Move dissectors into libethereal

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From: "Ulf Lamping" <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:49:03 +0100
Ethereal development <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 02.03.04 10:40:12:

MSVC generation isn't working with current CVS. When I'm back home (in about 8 hours), I can fix 
this.

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Compilation fails with the "old" autotools.
> 
> You now require running the "new" autotools. I successfully built the "new"
> Ethereal with the cygwin devel branch of the autotools (I prepended
> /usr/autotools/devel/bin to $PATH), whose tools have the following versions:
> Automake: 1.7.9
> Autoconf: 2.59
> Libtool: 1.5
> 
> $ for i in `ls | grep -v dll` ; do
> > echo -n "$i: " ; ./$i --version | head -1 ;
> > done
> aclocal: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.7.9
> aclocal-1.7: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.7.9
> autoconf: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
> autoheader: autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
> autom4te: autom4te (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
> automake: automake (GNU automake) 1.7.9
> automake-1.7: automake (GNU automake) 1.7.9
> autoreconf: autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
> autoscan: autoscan (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
> autoscan.log: autoupdate: autoupdate (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
> ifnames: ifnames (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
> libtool: ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5 (1.1220.2.1 2003/04/14 22:48:00)
> libtoolize: libtoolize (GNU libtool) 1.5
> 
> FYI: libethereal.a now has a size of 45 megabyte (symbols included)! If I
> strip the symbols, it shrinks to 7.6 megabyte meaning a reduction to
> 1/6th... However Ethereal itself remains faithfully at 19 megabyte.
> 
> Interesting output of ./configure:
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... no
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Olivier
> 
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: Guy Harris 
> |
> |On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:34:45AM +0100, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> |> I've just checked in a patch to link the dissectors into libethereal
> |> instead of each executable individually.
> |
> |	% ./autogen.sh
> |
> |		...
> |
> |	automake: Makefile.am: not supported: source file
> |	    `../crypt-md5.c' is in subdirectory
> |
> |		...
> |
> |	% automake --version
> |
> |It presumably needs a newer version of automake and autoconf and the
> |like; I'll install a newer version (hopefully, I can find one that'll
> |work on FreeBSD 3.4).  I guess we require a later version now....
> 

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