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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] OSX build fails

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:15:11 -0800
On Nov 21, 2017, at 11:56 PM, Dario Lombardo <dario.lombardo.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't have an OSX machine to work on. Anyone experiencing the same error?

Yes.

> Any idea on why it's happening

autotools builds now require GNU Make 4.x; macOS ships with 3.x, because 4.x is GPLv3.

> and how to fix it?

Either download and install a newer version of GNU Make, or switch to using CMake rather than autotools.