Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Latest CVS sources on NetBSD 1.3.1: make problems

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From: Greg Kilfoyle <gregk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 14:34:09 -0800
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > Then I encountered the following error:
> >
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/ethereal/cvs-src/ethereal/plugins'
> > Making all in libltdl
> > cd: can't cd to libltdl
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/ethereal/cvs-src/ethereal'
> > make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> 
> You do have a "libltdl" subdirectory in your Ethereal source tree,
> right?

No :(

> 
> If not, then (presuming that what you're compiling is from CVS, rather
> than from the 0.8.0 distribution, as per the "cvs-src" in the path - and
> as per the fact that "libltdl" is in the distribution) you should
> probably do
> 
>         cvs update -d

That fixed it! Many thanks.

I think an INSTALL.cvs is needed so I don't keep on asking silly
questions; and/or...I just checked the CVS page on ethereal.zing.org and
the cvs update command could be changed to include the '-d' option.

> 
> to get it to create all the subdirectories (which CVS, for some reason,
> does *not* do by default).

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Greg Kilfoyle (gregk@xxxxxxxxxxx)