Ah. Found the problem. Ethereal is searching directories outside of
prefix for plugins.
The plugin : gryphon.so, version 0.0.1, was found in
/usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.8
The plugin : gryphon.so, version 0.0.1 in
/products/ethereal/linux/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.8
was found in multiple directories
In my case /products/ethereal/linux/lib/ethereal is the same as
/usr/local/lib/ethereal.
Not sure if this is a legit complaint or not. I personally am not too
keen on it having /usr/local/lib hardwired, when I have specifically
configured a prefix. Perhaps this should be a configure option that
would allow you to specify a list of directories to search in addition
to the plugins/version dir. Maybe even an associated environment
variable that could be set.
-- Nathan
Olivier Abad wrote:
>
> 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);
>
> --
> Give me a sleeping pill and tell me your troubles.
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University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841
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