On 22-11-2017 11:26, João Valverde wrote:
On 22-11-2017 11:02, Roland Knall wrote:
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 11:45 AM, João Valverde
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On 22-11-2017 08:37, Roland Knall wrote:
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?
I'm not sure what you mean by "on default", but it seems unlikely
that anyone could build Wireshark without having to install at least
one dependency.
BSDs usually supply a gmake command for GNU Make. Not sure if it is
installed by default.
Installing a dependency is one thing, and fine by me. This includes
installing a newer version of make. But for certain builders, that
might not be an option (older Linux systems) as no packages might
exist, and they will have to build from source. In those cases,
building the make-system from source, just to use autotools is too
much to ask for in my book. All those people have already an
alternative in place though with cmake, but still, autotools sets the
bar a little higher then cmake, and that is in my opinion not a good
idea if both systems should be equal by design. So if they should be
equal, that would also require the same prerequisites, or at least the
same level of obtainability.
That would be "installing a newer version of make" on OSX because of
licensing issues.
I don't understand either your logic of build systems "equal by design".
I would hope not, that seems kind of pointless.
We are giving a lot of thought to ancient systems with all sorts of
restrictions. I don't disagree with that, it's generally a good thing to
be considerate, but it remains to be seen the impact on systems other
than OSX.
For OSX please use CMake instead.
And I would like to answer a point that is frankly starting to grate on
me (please don't take that personally, it's not).
If you are installing Wireshark dependencies from binary repositories
you should be installing Wireshark from a binary package too. If your
vendor does not provide one complain to them.
If you are building Wireshark from source presumably you can also
install dependencies from source. It's not black magic.
Having a binary repository is in no way a requirement to use a UNIX-like
system.
