Ethereal-cvs: Re: [ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal packet-snmp.c

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From: Bill Fumerola <billf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 21:16:51 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Guy Harris wrote:

>   Arrange that "proto_register_snmp()" be defined regardless of whether
>   SNMP dissection is enabled or not, so that if "register.c" was generated
>   by scanning a list of files that include "packet-snmp.c" even though
>   SNMP dissection isn't enabled (the standard "Makefile.in" and
>   "configure" script won't cause that to happen, but source distributions
>   such as BSD ports may be set up to do that), and thus includes a call to
>   "proto_register_snmp()", that won't cause the link to fail.

It's important to note that the BSD port calls ./configure and runs
the Makefile that it generates. The problem I think is that if a system
has SNMP but doesn't ask for it confusion occurs.

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