I have been seeing fearful problems in dissecting ip packets, which I think
I have narrowed down to a faulty value for FT_IPv4.
I am currently working on the basis that this has arisen because my
set-up has a faulty set-up of dependencies.
As I see it, this important value is established in ftenum in proto.h.
proto.h is included in numerous files, and if it is modified then (in my
humble opinion) a large number of packet-*.c become out of date.
This is definitely not happening on my system, videlicet:
ben@Mulberry:~/src/ethereal > ls -ltr proto.* packet-ip.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 48758 Apr 5 11:13 packet-ip.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 3524 Apr 5 11:13 packet-ip.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 93168 Apr 9 02:46 packet-ip.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 11876 Apr 11 22:02 proto.h~
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 46428 Apr 11 23:04 proto.c~
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 46626 Apr 12 06:04 proto.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 93228 Apr 12 06:04 proto.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 11876 Apr 12 06:13 proto.h
ben@Mulberry:~/src/ethereal > make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal'
Making all in wiretap
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal/wiretap'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal/wiretap'
Making all in gtk
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal/gtk'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal/gtk'
Making all in plugins
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal/plugins'
Making all in gryphon
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal/plugins/gryphon'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal/plugins/gryphon'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal/plugins'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal/plugins'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal/plugins'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/src/ethereal'
ben@Mulberry:~/src/ethereal >
My questions:
Does anyone have any comments? Is the system for dependencies
considered satisfactory? Am I doing something known to be wrong?
What advice does anyone have?
Ben.
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