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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] How do I build wireshark so I can run gdb on the result?

From: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 08:42:39 +0200
Hi Richard,

2012/5/13 Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi folks,
>
> libtool is getting in the way and the result is that shared objects
> are not found or I have to set up a long LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> Is there a simpler way?

You need to run Wireshark with the following command line:
libtool --mode=execute gdb wireshark
See http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Tips for details.

Regards,
Pascal.