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

[Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx>]

Might be a stupid question but on my account, only Linux machines are now capable of building Wireshark out of the box with autotools on default, right?

Windows could not anyway, and with this dependency macOS X fails as well. Beside the obvious esoteric options (Solaris, ...) this leaves CMake as the only viable option for about 95% of all build scenarios.

Is there a technical reason, e.g. something that CMake can't do, to still support it? I am not speaking out in favor of removal, just wondering aloud.

cheers

Roland

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.
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