Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] plugin weirdness

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From: Olivier Abad <abad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 23:36:15 +0100
On dim, jan 30, 2000 at 11:16:30 -0600, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> Just noticed this, I'm getting a warning when starting ethereal:
> 
> nneul(85)> ethereal The plugin : gryphon.so, version 0.0.1 was found
> in multiple directories
> 
> The only place it is installed is:
> 
> /products/ethereal/linux/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.8
> /products/ethereal/linux/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.8/gryphon.so
> /products/ethereal/linux/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.8/gryphon.la
> /products/ethereal/linux/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.8/gryphon.a
> 
> I've deleted that whole dir and reran make install - it creates the
> same files. 
> 
> Any idea what's up? This is on rh52.

This should really happen only if the same plugin (same name and
version) was registered twice with add_plugin(). add_plugin() is called
by plugins_scan_dir().
Try the attached patch. It prints a message for each plugin which shows
the directory where it was found.

Olivier

--- ethereal/plugins.c	Sun Jan 30 23:27:55 2000
+++ ethereal.build/plugins.c	Sun Jan 30 23:30:29 2000
@@ -398,8 +398,8 @@
 				 protocol, filter_string, filter, dissector)))
 	    {
 		if (cr == EEXIST)
-		    fprintf(stderr, "The plugin : %s, version %s\n"
-			    "was found in multiple directories\n", name, version);
+		    fprintf(stderr, "The plugin : %s, version %s in %s\n"
+			    "was found in multiple directories\n", name, version, dirname);
 		else
 		    fprintf(stderr, "Memory allocation problem\n"
 			    "when processing plugin %s, version %sn",
@@ -409,6 +409,8 @@
 		g_module_close(handle);
 		continue;
 	    }
+	    printf("The plugin : %s, version %s, was found in %s\n",
+		   name, version, dirname);
 	    if (statusfile) {
 		check_plugin_status(file->d_name, version, handle,
 			            filter_string, statusfile);

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