Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Building Ethereal 0.9.4 on FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 03:32:49PM -0500, Aron Silverton wrote:
> I am trying to build Ethereal 0.9.4 on a FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE system with 
> Gnome 2.

GNOME 2 implies GLib 2.x and GTK+ 2.x; Ethereal currently requires
1.2[.x] in both cases.

> I had 0.9.3 working from the ports collection, but I am 
> rebuilding to use libpcap 0.7.1.

Are you rebuilding from ports-collection source? If so I'd suggest
downloading 0.9.4 source from ethereal.com instead, and building that;
it's not as Ethereal needs tweaking to make it build on FreeBSD (most of
the Ethereal builds *I* do are at home on FreeBSD 3.4, from current CVS
source, and most of the rest are at work on SPARC Solaris - this isn't
some "all the world's a PC running Linux" program that needed to be
tweaked to work anywhere else).

> When running configure for Ethereal, the first problem is that it 
> complained about glib-config which I don't have.  I did a 
> %s/glib-config/glib12-config on the configure script and that problem 
> went away.

Have you installed GLib 1.2[.x] - including the developer's package? If
so, complain to whoever packaged up the 1.2[.x] developer's package that
they really should install make "glib-config" an alias for
"glib12-config", so that the standard GLib 1.2[.x] autoconf stuff will
work.

> Now when I run configure, I can't get it to build Ethereal.  It builds 
> everything else.  I've tried the command line flag --enable-ethereal and 
> it still does not work.  Any suggestions?

See previous item, and replace "glib" with "gtk"; it's probably not
finding GTK+, either.