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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Build breakage in multiple environments ...

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:40:11 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This has got to be the worst situation I have ever seen. The current CVS 
> will not build for me under FreeBSD or RH9.0. Under FreeBSD I have been 
> getting a bunch of problems that have caused me to upgrade autoconf and 
> automake, which caused lots of problems.
> 
> Under RH9.0, configure is determining that -lelf is required but there 
> seems to be no such library on my system.
> 
> I think we need some discussion around how we make such radical changes in 
> future.

OK, I finally got it to build under FreeBSD 4.3 after more hacking of my 
tool chain ...


Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com