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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] buildbot failure in Windows 2003 (IA32)

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:52:34 -0500
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> The latest NSIS installer (2.07) changed the syntax of the
> SetCompression setting, making the solid setting no longer default :-(
> 
> Without using the /SOLID parameter, current NSIS will now build the
> Ethereal installer about 1MB larger than before.
> 
> Unfortunately, using the /SOLID parameter with "old" NSIS version will
> result in the reported error message.
> 
> We could:
> - force our users (including the buildbot) to upgrade to NSIS 2.07 (my
> favourite)
> - find a way to circumvent this (but that makes the script even more
> complicated than it currently is), by adding a setting to config.nmake
> 
> I think simply increasing installer size of more than 1MB isn't a real
> option ...

NSIS on the Windows builder has been upgraded to 2.08.