I'm running into problems with the huge command-line passed to my shell in
generating register.c (I'm using a home-made build-system for the MSVC version
of Wireshark ... based on Mingw-make/Msys sh). So can you please accept this
patch to use a response-file in tools/make-dissector-reg.py?
--- SVN-Latest\tools\make-dissector-reg.py 2012-09-25 10:22:34.375000000 +0200
+++ tools\make-dissector-reg.py 2012-10-16 13:39:18.656250000 +0200
@@ -63,9 +63,17 @@
#
-# All subsequent arguments are the files to scan.
+# If last arg is '@resp_file', read the list of files
+# from this response-file. Otherwise
+# all subsequent arguments are the files to scan.
#
-files = sys.argv[3:]
+if sys.argv[3][0] == '@':
+ resp_file = sys.argv[3][1:]
+ print ("Reading response file: %s " % resp_file)
+ file = open(resp_file,'r')
+ files = file.read().split()
+else:
+ files = sys.argv[3:]
# Create the proper list of filenames
filenames = []
--gv
