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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] T-Shark Cross Compilation issue

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:29:01 -0400
Guy Harris wrote:
On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

I think I may have (finally, after several wrong turns) figured out
what's wrong with cross-compilation: we're not calling
AC_CANONICAL_TARGET any more (this was commented out in rev 25232).

...presumably because it somehow caused problems with getting automake to have the Makefile create ustar tarballs by default:

Well, when I said:

Just un-commenting it breaks things, so can you try to see if it works
with configure.in starting like this:

I meant "autogen.sh" won't run to completion. I /assumed/ that was why Gerald had commented it out.

Re-arranging the code as I suggested at least /seems/ to work, but:
	- I can't attempt to cross-compile
- (and) it hadn't occurred to me that the ustar thing wouldn't work with that change