Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal README.macos

["Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Tuexen said:
> I installed it. The following steps were necessary:
>
> 0. make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path.
> 1. Compile / install pkgconfig
> 2. Compile / install gettext
> 3. cp /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig/* /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/

Does setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to include /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig also do
that?

> 4. Compile / install glib
> 5. Modify /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/gthread-20.pc (to avoid the -pthread
> warnings)

Where does that "-pthread" flag come from?  Is that a bug in GLib 2.x that
puts that flag in even on OS X?

> 6. Compile / install pango
> 7. compile / install atk
> 8. compile / install gtk using --without-libtiff --without-libpng
> --without-libjpeg

Hopefully it also works without those flags if you install the relevant
libraries.

> Should I update the readme such that we recommend 2.4?

Yes, although we might want to suggest changing PKG_CONFIG_PATH rather
than copying the .pc files, and either continue to suggest installing the
JPEG/PNG/TIFF libraries or describe both alternatives.