Maybe you have to wait until the protocol dissector code has been moved to
epan/dissect so that the autotools don't need to go into subdirectories
(which seems to be the root cause of requiring newer autotools).
Regards,
Olivier
|From: Devin Heitmueller
|
|Seems like every time I turn around, Ethereal doesn't compile against
|Mandrake because of Mandrake's toolchain. Perhaps it's time
|to bite the
|bullet and cut over to Red Hat.
|
|Thanks for your help,
|
|Devin
|
|On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 12:57, Biot Olivier wrote:
|> |From: Devin Heitmueller
|> |
|> |Hello,
|> |
|> |I'm trying to compile the CVS ethereal for Mandrake 9.1,
|and am running
|> |into the following errors when I run autogen. I have
|autoconf 2.13 as
|> |well as 2.5 installed (standard for Mandrake).
|> |
|> |Has anyone seen this sort of thing before?
|>
|> The problem is the version of the autotools you're using. I
|strongly suspect
|> that there is also a devel branch of the autotools with your Mandrake
|> distribution, as this is the case in cygwin (a RedHat
|derivate). Try running
|> the following on your system:
|> $ find / -name automake -exec echo {} ';' -exec {} --version ';'
|> Shoud this yield a newer automake, then I propose you add
|its directory to
|> $PATH when building Ethereal.
|>
|> I didn't find the recent autotools on RPMfind.net but you
|should find them
|> in the Mandrake Cooker "distribution".
|>
|> Ethereal *can* be compiled with automake 1.7.9, autoconf
|2.59 and libtool
|> 1.5.
|>
|> See the thread "Move dissectors into libethereal" for more
|info on this
|> issue.
|>
|> Regards,
|>
|> Olivier
|>
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|Senior Software Engineer
|Netilla Networks Inc.
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