Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Specifying custom GLIB directory when building tshark

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

sudhakar govindavajhala wrote:
>  
> Hello all,
>  
> I am having problems building tshark (of wireshark-1.3.3 and 
> wireshark-1.2.6).  This is because by default Centos 5.3 provides GLIB 
> 1.2 only.

Erm, CentOS 5.3 only provides glib 1.2?  I'm quite certain that's not 
the case: here's the URL of a x86_64 version:

http://mirror.rackspace.com/CentOS/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/glib2-devel-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm

> I downloaded and compiled a newer version of GLIB.  How do I tell 
> ./configure for tshark to look in the new directory for glib?

./configure --with-glib=/path/to/your/other/glib

should do it.