Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Alternate techniques for building register.c

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> on platforms where nm is available i think even better would be
> to run nm on libethereal.a  and then just grep for the appropriate symbols.

Well, "nm -p", at least, so we don't have to cope with the "improved" 
System V-style "nm" format of output.

> register.c would have to be linked with explicitely though and can no
> longer be part of libethereal.a though.

Use "nm" on the ".o" files, instead?

That *might* be sufficient to work on all UN*Xes, although I'd never 
underestimate the ability of the developers of a particular UN*X to 
"enhance" the output or command-line arguments of "nm" to the point of 
significant incompatibility (e.g., I think to get V7/BSD-style output on 
Digital UNIX, you used "-B", not "-p").